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“My greatest and yet most horrible gift is the selfsame one vouched Cassandra: I read the writing on walls waaaaay before the fact. I see, smell, taste what is coming. And I respond, react, acknowledge, notice, witness. Sometimes, I even get out of the way of oncoming buses.” Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Ruminant With A View by [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “Over a year ago, I foresaw clearly that Greece, my second homeland, would lose at least a generation—two, most probably. It would lose—to suicide, slow starvation, and silence—everyone over 60, living on pensions, to what Europe euphemistically calls ‘The Crisis.’ It would also lose those 45 to 60.” [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—3/26/12—“Tyrannosaura Scriptoloathica,” c’est moi. And I thought I was a rara enough avis writing a first erotic novel, at 59. Then, Mr. Smartypants Hollywood Director (you know who you are) tapped me to write the screenplay from the novel. By May 1. Which was a [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—3/5/12—Well, OK: “Great”? I know, I know: my readers, the novel’s readers, will be the judge of that, I hear you saying. But, for me, it had to be that particular “aspirational adjective” because, in my generation of writers, we all saw ourselves writing The [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: Elizabeth is recuperating from surgery. This column ran, in a somewhat different form, last year. “I think the trick now is to do something that’s not just part of the noise.”—Larry Gelbart (Producer of the TV series, “Mash”) TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—2/20/12—Facebook ate my homework. In fact, [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “Whenever possible, substitute constructions out of known entities for inferences to unknown entities.” —Bertrand Russell’s rendering of “Occam’s Razor” TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—2/6/12—There are many on FaceBook who already question my sanity. Heaven knows, I myself question it much of the time. Usually, however, it doesn’t answer me [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—1/30/12—Let’s get some things straight right off the bat. 1) I’m neither a genius nor a fabulously disciplined super-athlete; 2) I was never, ever, a “natural athlete” (a click murmur and early health problems, plus my usually being 3-4 years younger than my classmates pretty [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Editor’s Note: WeeklyHubris has run this column before, but the author feels strongly enough about the subject to post it again for new readers. “So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—1/2/12—What most readers (my few; my treasured), who know me as an essayist, a writer of non-fiction, may not know is that I also write poetry, that I began writing as a poet . . . and that I then wrote (and published) jazz lyrics [...]

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—12/19/11—This year, I’ve been “house-cleaning.” That’s just one of The 99 %’s euphemisms for “turning one’s home upside-down looking for primo stuff one can profitably sell online for cold hard cash.” (We have other euphemisms, if you’re interested.) In the process of scrounging through my [...]