Joni Edelman

Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?

New research suggests that brain inflammation occurring independent of a disease may be linked to depression. Could a "cure" be on the horizon?

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

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.

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.

All boobs are good boobs. And all areola too!

And what’s better than eggs? Eggs direct from the cloaca of your own chicken.

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

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