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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…
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How This 60-Year-Old Yogini Lost 40lbs After Spinal Fusion Surgery
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,…
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The Irreplaceable (For Now) & Subjective Keith Olbermann: Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite & The Pretty Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
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…
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Alas For The Egg That Is Greece
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…
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Selling Mother’s Louis Vuittons on eBay
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…
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My Latest Suicide Attempt: 11.11.11
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “From where/a red tomato/lies rotting/I am only/a few steps away.”—a tanka by Saito Mokichi (1882-1953) After completing the manuscript of her last (posthumously published) novel, Between…
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The Ineffable
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”—Rumi “If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:…