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Of Doomsday Preppers, The Planet Nibiru & Mayan Long-Count Calendar End-Timers
“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…
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Losing My Religion: Embracing Atheism in My Seventh Decade
“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…
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Facebook Un-friending & Guru Un-Following
“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…
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An Open Letter from Hurricane Sandy
“If, for all intents and purposes, I appear to have run my course, wiping out the Jersey Shore, Staten Island and what passes for a power grid in benighted, northeastern, Tri-State America, I…
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Leaning Backward (not Forward) in Post-Sandy New Jersey
“I have THIS to say, loud and clear, to Governor Christie and to all other science-denying and FEMA-disparaging members of Christie’s party, the Republicans: 1) Climate Change is real; 2) Several so-called “Hundred-Year…
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My Inner Obama: Leader of The Freer World
Ruminant With A View By Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This column was first published four years ago, when Barack Obama was campaigning for his first term as President of The United States. I feel…
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Purely Puerto Rican “Pasteles” in Ridgefield Park, NJ
“Not just anyone can make pasteles, a traditional island specialty served at holiday feasts (and no one of Puerto Rican ancestry, it seems, can long live without consuming them). But who, any more, knows how to…
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Communiqué from an Apparently Deceased Cat
“Let’s just put it this way: energy doesn’t just, poof, disappear. Love doesn’t just, zap, evaporate. Beings as vital and individual and integral and real as I am, as you are, F.T., persevere.…
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Teaching Yoga to “The Fay” of New Jersey
“Now, Iyengar-Style Yoga, which is the genre I study, practice and teach, is something like ballet `a la Balanchine. And Balanchine is a name The Fairies know and respect. But he would have…
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Can We Just Agree Not to Rip Apart One Another’s Teddy Bears?
“When it comes to religion, a great many of us are like three-year-olds clutching teddy bears, and one does NOT march up to a toddler, snatch away his transitional object, and then dismember…