The following essay is a guest post written by my friend, Emily Morris. When I was 21, I moved to Berkeley, CA to be a nanny. I didn’t know anyone there except my friend and her husband, who were both in their early forties at the time. I had a car to use and weekends… Read more
The following is a guest essay by Kim Brittingham, author of Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large. When I was small, my grandmother was a chubby woman. She lost weight later in life and became a tiny, featherweight sprite of an old lady. But when I… Read more
The following essay is a guest post written by my friend, Emily Morris. On my seventh birthday I got a baby doll. I named her Jenny and carried her around for months, dressed her in baby clothes, and slept with her in my bed. I cut her hair (into what I thought was an adorable… Read more
Today’s guest essay is written by Nicki Stapleton (honeybeenicki), who has previously shared her essays, “My Life as a Prison Wife” and “My Life as a Post-Prison Wife” on Dear Wendy. When I was a kid, I loved going through the photo albums that lined our book shelf, looking at pictures of “young me,” as… Read more
Today’s essay was written by guest contributor, Dennis Hong. A few weeks ago, Wendy responded to a letter from a woman who was disgusted by her current boyfriend. As she put it, “He is grossly hairy EVERYWHERE, he is poorly educated, lacks common sense, is extremely clingy and he has halitosis.” Further complicating the situation… Read more
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