Joni Edelman

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

My cocktail is wrong. It’s a gin and tonic with only gin. It’s a martini with 10 olives. And I can’t stand the sun. Not today. Not this month.

When it comes to your physique, your mind can actually work against you.

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

Silly me, I thought the darn thing took care of itself. Little did I know I was sorely mistaken and had a vagina complex.

As the mother of three teens, I'm here to tell you: You have nothing to freak out about.

My daughter just had 75 of her Instagram yoga images pilfered. What is going on? And what can we do about it?

photo credit: Lindy West (instagram), by

Compassion for myself is not a thing I do. It is not a thing I have ever done. It is not a thing I feel comfortable doing. It's time I stop for compassion.

My mother didn't teach me how to be a mother. But my babies did.