Author Archives: eboleman-herring

“I am working my way—again—through X-rays and skull scans, but I have, finally, come to the conclusion that Yoga as we practice it, as we are taught it, in the West, is not what the doctor, or the mythical ‘Father of Yoga,’ Patanjali, ordered. Yoga, whether ‘branded’ Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa or ‘Hot’—and leave it to [...]

“Just inside ‘The Art of Eating: The Collected Gastronomical Works of M.F.K. Fisher’—and, remember, my mother was, first of all, a reader, and only second, reluctantly and late, a cook—there is a two-page clipping from the glossy New York Times magazine, ‘Style & Entertaining,’ an article by Jacob Epstein titled ‘Revel With A Cause,’ its [...]

“The story of the Teaneck Sushi Buffet in Bergen County, New Jersey, is actually more of a cross-cultural love story than a fish tale. Tommy McGlew, originally of Fort Lee, and his wife, who was born and brought up in the city of Changle, Fujian Province, in southern China met when Mei Wa was working [...]

“So . . . Once upon a time, O Best Belovéd, these were the books that made me a reader and writer; the books that made me me, to a very large extent; transmitted, first, via my mother’s soft, Up-Country South Carolina voice, but always held up for me to see. And the seeing—for those [...]

“For about a week now (a long time to remain this delusional, I admit), I have believed, firmly, that: 1) my husband was going round the bend; or losing his vision and sense of proprioception entirely; 2) we had inherited a determined and wily downstairs poltergeist; or 3) I, losing my mind, was sleep-walking and, [...]

“Though Jesse and I—on those so very rare occasions when we meet—are more or less overcome, for the duration of our time together, and all but speechless, remembering our mutual losses, we also comprise, for one another, unique reservoirs of memory. At 61 and 78, respectively, Jesse and I have been actors in the family [...]

Note: This column first ran following the grievous wounding of Gabrielle Giffords, among many other innocents, in Tucson AZ—perpetrated by a mentally ill young man with no business carrying “weapons of mass destruction.” If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, hoping for a different result, then our society, which [...]

“You will be, as I was, comforted that NASA has seen fit to put up a page explaining just why the world as we know it will not be coming to an end on December 21, 2012, or less than two weeks after this column posts. Comforted because, just when I thought America already had [...]

“If I’d been compelled to label myself, from age 14 on, I would have chosen the name Agnostic. I knew that I could not trust either the gods of the Old or New Testaments (let alone the Hindus’ pantheon, Islam’s Allah or Buddha’s god-knows-what) to be the bedrock beneath my feet. But the jury was [...]

“Ramananda John E. Welshons writes: ‘Among the many amazingly wise, loving, and insightful teachings Meher Baba offered to us was the admonition that ‘to allow yourself to be guided by an impure teacher is like allowing a madman to sit on your chest with a razor blade in his hand.’” Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Ruminant With A [...]