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In The Eyes of the Desert Sands: A Sufi Takes Flight
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: These are the last of my Yoga Columns Series to be re-run. I’ll be back at my laptop, and on my Yoga mat, in Teaneck,…
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Home-Alone (Iyengar) Yoga
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Elizabeth is back in New Jersey, recovering from jetlag after six weeks in her true homeland, Greece. Original columns will resume next Monday. This column first…
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I Inhaled Marijuana, Dear Reader, Briefly
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: Once again, these columns represent part of my continuing series on Iyengar Yoga. TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—10/17/11—I was brought up a Presbyterian. In Pasadena. In…
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The One-Legged Yogini
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This continues my series of “Ruminations” on Yoga from previous years . . . “Although thirty spokes meet at the hub,/it is the empty space…
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Renewing My Greek Passport: The Unsung Extra-Credit Labor of Hercules
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring MYKONOS Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/26/11—Today, I learned why Greek passports are good for five years: it actually takes five years to renew one. Anyone who has lived almost…
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Yoga In ‘Storyville,’ Yoga In The Brothel
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This fall, due to reader-request, I am running all my Yoga columns in sequence. “[Jelly Roll] Morton was, along with Tony Jackson, one of the…
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Travelocity Dot CON!
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: In fact, this column is a re-run from last year: as it posts, Dean and I are on yet another small plane, courtesy of Orbitz.com,…
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I Love Her; She Hates Me (My New Iyengar Yoga Teacher)
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “If you tell a Zen master everything is a dream, she will take her stick and whack you over the head. Then she will ask, ‘Is…
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Howard Stern Speaks To Floyd The Groundhog
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring This column originally ran in 2010 but, Floyd’s friends and relations still being among us, I thought it deserved another posting. TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—8/8/11—Floyd was named…
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Sharing Absolutely Everything: The Human Imperative
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “There are 10 times more microbes in the body than there are human cells, with trillions of bacteria concentrated in the mouth, skin, lungs and especially…