Joni Edelman

Do you want people to for-sure panic? Tell them not to panic.

“I don’t even know what to say, Joni. Your baby isn’t alive.”

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

She says she’s worried that the cat, whose name is Jack, doesn’t know what’s going on. She tried to explain to him that she was leaving for a while.

Actually, no, I'm not a gluttonous moron.

Oh hey remember that time in 1804 when Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had an actual duel, with actual guns and Burr shot Hamilton and Hamilton did not shoot Burr. And then the next day Hamilton died.

When I heard about accusations that Lena sexually abused her sister, I was astonished. And my visceral emotional reaction prompted powerful questions.

I want my kids to have an understanding of the truth of sex, the ins, the outs, the details no one wants to ask anyone—least of all their mom.

Help. Me. Please. And by help me, I mean, bring me my jumbo size jar of

I guess the point of a spiritual awakening is just that; if you were already awake, you wouldn’t need a moment that was self-defining. You’d already be defined.