A few events and classes have run across my desk this week for my NYC-based moms, read on if you’ll be around … two start today!
Park-Slope-based Momasphere has an event tonight at 8pm, and it looks like another fab evening out for moms, with lots of great food and prizes! I had a ball at the last one, and won myself a dinner-for-two which made it even better ;). Amy Sohn will be reading from her new book Prospect Park West, at the glass Richard Meier on Prospect Park building that I run past several mornings a week. I’d love to see inside it, but alas am not free tonight.
> Details and registration here, hurry!
Acting in French with Manisha Snoyer looks like so much fun, and if you’ve any thought of learning French in a fun atmosphere, and have any interest in Theatre, this is for you! Fees are reasonable too :).
The mission of ‘La Comédie Française New York’ is to help students develop spoken and written fluency in French while cultivating an awareness and appreciation of great contemporary Francophone playwrights in the United States.
FRENCH THURSDAYS is a beginning French language class designed for performing arts professionals and theatre lovers. It starts today! FRENCH MONDAYS 2 is equally appropriate for the actor hoping to work in France or the theatre and film enthusiast seeking to speak French with greater ease and confidence. It starts next week.
> Details and dates here!
Lara Kohn Thompson of Essential Yoga Brooklyn has announced her fall class lineup, and it looks like a great one! Some classes take place at both Bend and Bloom Yoga in Park Slope, and others at Lucky Lotus Yoga in Ft Greene. There are ongoing classes in prental, hatha, Baby and Me, and Women’s Practice, as well as special workshops for the Pelvic Floor, Re-Inhabiting Ourselves (mini retreat for moms!), Physical Care and Training for Women (Post-partum and beyond), and an active birth workshop for couples called Labor, Delivery, and the Early Postpartum.
> Details and dates here!
No matter where you are, Tend to your Passions and take a class!
When you run through water stations in the middle of a pack of 45,000 people, you get a little dirty from discarded cups and banana peels …I ran my second-ever marathon yesterday. It wasn’t one bit the race I’d hoped and planned for, and by far the hardest race I’ve ever run. In my neatly-planned life list, the “sub-four-hour-marathon” box is still unchecked. It may very well remain that way forever, I don’t know. All I know right now is that yesterday wasn’t to be that day, not from the get-go, and that I gave it every single ounce of my energy, and then many more, and came up with a 4:13. I am content. A bit disappointed, yes, but I know I could not possibly have tried harder. 
