Park Slope Reader

Yoga is a complex practice.  That is its beauty and its benefit.  For a creature as elaborate as a human being, yoga offers a movement vocabulary to challenge and ease…

When it comes to sports, New York is a baseball city.  A paced game like baseball offers relief to a metropolitan area that can grind and aggress us at times….

Spring! The season of new life and rebirth! Unless, of course you’re a goldfish in our home, in which case spring is a time of death, plain and simple. Last…

At the risk of being a traitor to my generation, I have to say: even as we have tried harder than any of our ancestors to mentor, please, and encourage…

A Librarian’s Search for Meaning ‘Mamihlapinatapai,’ is a word from the Yaghan language found in Tierra del Fuego. It describes a fraction of a moment in our lives.  A moment…

As we board the subway, get in elevators, and jog down the sidewalks, we start to take for granted the feeling of pavement beneath our feet; it’s easy to forget…

Emerging from their homes, ex-hibernators in Brooklyn have many options to choose from when it comes to gathering with their friends and family and enjoying the long days of spring…

Dear Hypocrite, I know you’re not a therapist. I’ve been reading your column for six years and every time you answer a letter you restate that you do not have…

Michael Hearst’s Unique Approach to Children’s Nonfiction Michael Hearst’s book for children—a collection of profiles of odd animals—is as unique as its title suggests. The format, Hearst says, is a…