Emily J. Edwards
@msemilyedwards.bsky.social
She/Her. Author based in beautiful Los Angeles. Staunch woman. Links to podcasts, projects, and books: linktr.ee/msemilyedwards
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Hi! I'm Emily. I'm an author (www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2274...), podcaster (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) & writer. I try to make people laugh. I write about sleuths in a newsletter: msemilyedwards.com/blog/
Hi! I'm Emily. I'm an author (www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2274...), podcaster (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) & writer. I try to make people laugh. I write about sleuths in a newsletter: msemilyedwards.com/blog/
i’m as white as a hotel towel but thankfully my grandpa’s immigrant parents owned a bakery and restaurant. my mother can’t cook for shit but grandpa cooked til i was a teenager. we had a fuck ton of “unamerican” food at holidays but it was alllllll good.
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
i’m as white as a hotel towel but thankfully my grandpa’s immigrant parents owned a bakery and restaurant. my mother can’t cook for shit but grandpa cooked til i was a teenager. we had a fuck ton of “unamerican” food at holidays but it was alllllll good.
Larry Hagman played a huge role in the incredible movie FAILSAFE and doesn’t get enough credit for it
As J.R. Ewing, Texan Larry Hagman was the only actor to appear in all 357 episodes of "Dallas." I only mention it because Larry died 13 years ago today, on Nov. 23, 2012. He was 81 years old.
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Larry Hagman played a huge role in the incredible movie FAILSAFE and doesn’t get enough credit for it
i regret to inform you that the DMV guy was being kind
my new license photo makes me look like i have never slept
my new license photo makes me look like i have never slept
that fleeting moment of bliss tinged with relief when you take a new driver’s license photo and the guy at the dmv goes, “nice!”
thank god
thank god
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
i regret to inform you that the DMV guy was being kind
my new license photo makes me look like i have never slept
my new license photo makes me look like i have never slept
a collapsible laundry basket is my latest and kids, i love it so much
I have bought a ton of little low tech things over the course of the last couple years and I have made a few purchases that were very small but life changing for a middle aged lady:
-hand fans
-cotton hankies
-cheapass reading glasses
-decent pens (you pen nerds were totally right about pens)
-hand fans
-cotton hankies
-cheapass reading glasses
-decent pens (you pen nerds were totally right about pens)
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
a collapsible laundry basket is my latest and kids, i love it so much
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I read Wicked before the musical even made it to Broadway, and I'm always... Fascinated? at the idea that the musical is just so much better than the book. The changes are SOOOO different that they are two wildly different stories based and I wish more people would just be ok with that.
I fell down a hole of "people who love wicked and picked up the book thinking it was going to be a fluffy fantasy romance story"
😂😂😂😂
I adored that book for a long time and was shocked when they made it into a family friendly musical.
It's dark and satirical and wonderful.
😂😂😂😂
I adored that book for a long time and was shocked when they made it into a family friendly musical.
It's dark and satirical and wonderful.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I read Wicked before the musical even made it to Broadway, and I'm always... Fascinated? at the idea that the musical is just so much better than the book. The changes are SOOOO different that they are two wildly different stories based and I wish more people would just be ok with that.
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MY family's chef always places half a cherry in ours, as his *personal* touch.
a poster for the wigglesworths 20 years shows a man in a yellow shirt and a ballerina in a white tutu
ALT: a poster for the wigglesworths 20 years shows a man in a yellow shirt and a ballerina in a white tutu
media.tenor.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
MY family's chef always places half a cherry in ours, as his *personal* touch.
our amuse bouche of "glacé pears and mandarins" is brought to you by our personal chef, Del Monte
Most families don’t start the meal with a little dish of canned fruit cocktail, as it turns out. Rutabaga is probably also uncommon (but I also dislike it pretty intensely and refuse even a “no thank you” helping these days).
I love the idea of Thanksgiving pierogi!
I love the idea of Thanksgiving pierogi!
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
our amuse bouche of "glacé pears and mandarins" is brought to you by our personal chef, Del Monte
oh my god, my parents always made mashed turnips and/or rutabaga and i just wanna know where this tradition came from!!
Rutabaga
I remember my great-grandfather asking me to just eat a small bite when I was very little. Now it just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it.
I remember my great-grandfather asking me to just eat a small bite when I was very little. Now it just wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it.
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
oh my god, my parents always made mashed turnips and/or rutabaga and i just wanna know where this tradition came from!!
Irma, I'm gonna be honest, I have never seen this before in my life and I am *tickled*, I tell you. TICKLED.
MAYONNAISE????
MAYONNAISE????
Mayonnaise and jello salad with fruit. My mom was a home economics teacher in the 70s 😆
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Irma, I'm gonna be honest, I have never seen this before in my life and I am *tickled*, I tell you. TICKLED.
MAYONNAISE????
MAYONNAISE????
awwww, hell yeah, my little Polish heart just soared
Pickled beets.
November 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
awwww, hell yeah, my little Polish heart just soared
What's the thing you eat/ate on Thanksgiving that you realized other people didn't eat?
I was maybe 15 before I realized other people did not center the meal on pierogi
I was maybe 15 before I realized other people did not center the meal on pierogi
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
What's the thing you eat/ate on Thanksgiving that you realized other people didn't eat?
I was maybe 15 before I realized other people did not center the meal on pierogi
I was maybe 15 before I realized other people did not center the meal on pierogi
am i getting a ton of ads for perimenopause stuff because im 40 or is it because its a new health scam being run on women
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
am i getting a ton of ads for perimenopause stuff because im 40 or is it because its a new health scam being run on women
adulthood is: getting genuinely excited that you figured out how to remove the hard water buildup on your stainless steel kitchen sink
(i doused a sponge with JetDry and scrubbed at it for like 20 minutes)
(i doused a sponge with JetDry and scrubbed at it for like 20 minutes)
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
adulthood is: getting genuinely excited that you figured out how to remove the hard water buildup on your stainless steel kitchen sink
(i doused a sponge with JetDry and scrubbed at it for like 20 minutes)
(i doused a sponge with JetDry and scrubbed at it for like 20 minutes)
i’m always so jealous of people with really iconic movies because i can tell you that RACHEL, RACHEL was filmed all over my hometown and who honestly gives a damn
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
i’m always so jealous of people with really iconic movies because i can tell you that RACHEL, RACHEL was filmed all over my hometown and who honestly gives a damn
once a month or so i get a text from my friend (who is native) and it’s a link to something with the text “can white people just stop”
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
once a month or so i get a text from my friend (who is native) and it’s a link to something with the text “can white people just stop”
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did you know you could log into your library app RIGHT NOW and borrow Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man in eBook? you should try it.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
did you know you could log into your library app RIGHT NOW and borrow Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man in eBook? you should try it.
did you know you could log into your library app RIGHT NOW and borrow Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man in eBook? you should try it.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
did you know you could log into your library app RIGHT NOW and borrow Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man in eBook? you should try it.
everyone keeps saying MTG is going to run for president and i think she is but also it is completely laughable to think that the modern republican party will support a female candidate no matter how much she loves guns and jesus. the party of trad wives is not going to support her.
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
everyone keeps saying MTG is going to run for president and i think she is but also it is completely laughable to think that the modern republican party will support a female candidate no matter how much she loves guns and jesus. the party of trad wives is not going to support her.
In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey,
Don't you know that i love you?
In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby,
Don't you know that i'll always be true?
Don't you know that i love you?
In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby,
Don't you know that i'll always be true?
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
In-a-gadda-da-vida, honey,
Don't you know that i love you?
In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby,
Don't you know that i'll always be true?
Don't you know that i love you?
In-a-gadda-da-vida, baby,
Don't you know that i'll always be true?
one of my (40f) favorite things to say to my husband (41m) is, “when we grow up can we…?” and then it’s usually followed by something absolutely insane
(today’s was “own a christmas tree farm with some christmas donkeys?”)
(today’s was “own a christmas tree farm with some christmas donkeys?”)
November 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
one of my (40f) favorite things to say to my husband (41m) is, “when we grow up can we…?” and then it’s usually followed by something absolutely insane
(today’s was “own a christmas tree farm with some christmas donkeys?”)
(today’s was “own a christmas tree farm with some christmas donkeys?”)
synergy is a bane of EXISTENCE
Just casting a vote for 'synergy.'
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
synergy is a bane of EXISTENCE
everyone’s got a word that if they hear someone use it, they know they hate that person and (aside from slurs and bigotries) mine is
grit
grit
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
everyone’s got a word that if they hear someone use it, they know they hate that person and (aside from slurs and bigotries) mine is
grit
grit
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When I’m trying to find a gender-neutral alternative to “ladies and gentlemen”
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
When I’m trying to find a gender-neutral alternative to “ladies and gentlemen”
gotta celebrate #BeaujolaisNouveauDay (somehow i managed to buy Nick & Nora glasses already but not wine glasses yet)
November 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
gotta celebrate #BeaujolaisNouveauDay (somehow i managed to buy Nick & Nora glasses already but not wine glasses yet)
Nathan Lane loves a messy blonde
Tonight, Nathan Lane joins us for Two for One to present his double feature -- DOUBLE INDEMNITY ('44) and CHINATOWN ('74).
It all begins at 8pm ET.
It all begins at 8pm ET.
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Nathan Lane loves a messy blonde