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The rosy side of the pink cancer: new friendships
By LENORE SKENAZY | The upside of cancer? Not sure there is one. But there does seem to be one side of cancer that is the opposite of terror, loneliness and pain: The unexpected friendships that grow...
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Suburbia & driving are declining in America, Sam Schwartz says
By LENORE SKENAZY | Sam Schwartz grew up tearing through Brooklyn on his bike, making deliveries for his family’s mom-and-pop grocery. He rode the subways, too, and sometimes took them all the way...
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Even ‘free-range kids’ could use help with recess
BY LENORE SKENAZY | Since lately there’s almost no aspect of childhood that isn’t bewailed, it should come as no surprise that the existence of “recess consultants” is evidence to many that the...
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Signs, words and worlds all merge in a classroom
BY LENORE SKENAZY | Peek into any school on any day, and chances are you will see a little magic. Or a lot. I peeked into P.S. 347 on E. 23rd St. in Manhattan last week and who should be there but...
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‘Got milk?’ No, not that almond stuff — real milk!
BY LENORE SKENAZY | “Where’s the milk?” I asked my best-friend-from-high-school, Gigi, as I peered into her fridge. “It’s right there!” “Where?” “There!” But, as Gertrude Stein would have said — if...
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The germ of a new idea: Microbes are our friends!
BY LENORE SKENAZY | It’s time for a microbes’ rights movement. Too long have we reviled the misunderstood microbe as an evil to be sprayed, slathered or scrubbed away. Too long have we demeaned this...
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Finders aren’t always keepers
Remember that old expression “Finders keepers, losers weepers?” Does it even exist anymore? Last week I lost my phone on the Q58 bus, but before I even realized it was missing, I sat down at my...
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Recalling Yiddish songs of yesteryear
By Lenore Skenazy Yiddish is the language that used to work like magic for the Jews of Europe. You could be from Russia, Romania, or France, and even if you couldn’t understand a lick of each other’s...
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The Vatican has good news for Jews!
You’d think this would be good news to a Jew like me: The Vatican has declared that my tribe can get into heaven. In a statement just released in honor of the 50th anniversary of the “Nostra Aetate” —...
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Lenore foments a resolution revolution!
Readers, right about now, you may be feeling bad about the resolutions you’ve already broken, crushed into a million pieces and washed down with a pint of Banana Chocolate Swirl Talenti. But there’s no...
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The serious work of a good playdate
By Lenore Skenazy As Brooklyn mom Tamara R. Mose was preparing for a play date with a mom and child she didn’t know well yet, she paused to look at her home: “All the bathrooms are clean, dishes put...
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Lenore’s Starbucks tutorial
BY LENORE SKENAZY Please pay attention. There will be a quiz. Starbucks recently took out a two-page, fold-out, super-slick ad in the New Yorker to educate us benighted, Folgers-swilling plebes on “The...
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Cheering for Cheetos: Burning off those snacks
BY LENORE SKENAZY It is a cruel joke that the Super Bowl comes just a little over a month after we have resolved to forsake all wings, chips, dip, pizza, soda, beer, cheese sticks, Cheez-Its, Cheetos,...
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Val’s Day: A great chance to screw up your relationship
BY LENORE SKENAZY | There are holidays filled with joy, love, laughs and a gladdened heart. And then there’s Valentine’s Day. “I’m not sure he ever recovered,” recalls a friend I’ll call Clarissa,...
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Don’t ‘brand’ sex-offenders’ passports
By Lenore Skenazy One day after Pres. Obama signed legislation that will brand the passports of sex offenders last week, a federal court challenge was filed against it. The International Megan’s Law is...
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Tut exhibit humanizes child-pharoh
BY LENORE SKENAZY On Nov. 26, 1922, Howard Carter took out the little chisel his grandmother had given him on his 17th birthday when he, an English lad, was already obsessed by ancient Egypt. Now...
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Planned Parenthood turns 100
BY LENORE SKENAZY One hundred years ago in Brownsville, Brooklyn, our modern era began. In a squat building that no longer exists, a pretty and soft-spoken mom named Margaret opened an office where...
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Predator panic preoccupies parents
BY LENORE SKENAZY A mom just bought a toy for her 2-year-old that signals to pedophiles that the girl is ready to be traded for sex. Wait, what? I’d repeat it, but it still wouldn’t make any sense. And...
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We should set our elders free
BY LENORE SKENAZY Why do grandparents and their grandchildren get along so well? They share a common enemy. Okay. Old joke. But the truth is, they do share another common enemy that is not a relative:...
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A modern day with hunt at Tribeca fest
BY LENORE SKENAZY This will sound strange, but it only gets stranger: A man in the Yukon who lives in a hut and has a team of 30 mush dogs got interested in the topic of female sex offenders. Go...
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