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Giving In To Grace & Giving Freud a Rest
So . . . am I a good giver, or a bad giver? Do I give in hope of return (whatever the form), or do I give as a tiny manifestation of Grace,…
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Looking Ridiculous, Giggling & Flailing on the Yoga Mat
“I do my best writing with the eraser-end of the pencil. I achieve my best asana, my most perfected Yoga positions; after much tomfoolery and tinkering.” Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Ruminant With A View by…
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Letter from a Nouveau Pauvre
“In Teaneck, New Jersey alone, where I live at present (beached, as it were), fully half the town’s businesses have closed. And a goodly portion of those still open—diners that haven’t lifted their…
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An End to Wanting Things
“A true Southern Belle, she would not consider divorce. And so, retreating into her pain, she began to surround herself, more and more, with ‘things.’ Like a bird nesting amongst monstrous thorns, living…
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Writing, Not Even for Peanuts, in the 21st Century
“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,…
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Sitting In The Dark
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,…
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Dinosaur Writes (Sort Of) First Screenplay, On Steep Deadline, From (Own) First Novel
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…
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Woman (of a Certain Age) Writes Great American (Erotic) Novel
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,…
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Facebook Ate My Homework
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…
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The Squirrel Amongst the Razors In Occam’s Butter Churn
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…