Joni Edelman

I didn't get a lot of mothering as a child, but when I did, it was from her. She taught me how to sew, how to crochet. She taught me how to stand up for myself, to be tough. She taught me how to make fried chicken and fried okra, which I will never make, because it's fucking gross.

What to really expect when you're expecting.

When I had my first child, I couldn't have prepared for the way it would make me feel.

By baby three, well let’s just say things are a little anticlimactic, at least where furnishings are concerned. Hand me down crib. Check.

It's not always easy to find a new partner when you have kids in tow. But not only is it possible, it's worth it.

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.

...I’m going to help you! By “help” I mean “tell you all the things that didn’t work.”

I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.

Suffering is America’s favorite thing to do. We starve ourselves to lose weight, and we’re a success story. We don’t sleep, and we’re just getting SO MUCH DONE. We do a thousand things a day and involve our kids in a thousand activities, because somehow, in some perverted way, that makes us successful.

I'll never forget the day I discovered the name for my mental illness.