Joni Edelman

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

As a former Mormon, the Church's revelation that they're going to start “loving and accepting” the LGBT community makes me laugh. Hard.

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

Brangelina are splitting up. A sad day for them, a joyful day for single ladies everywhere.

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.

It's #STDAwareness week here at Ravishly. We're kicking it off with this handy chart!

4. A high school government class.

I just listened to my four and six year-old children (one boy, one girl) have a lengthy bathtime conversation about babies, growing up, m

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

Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.