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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:…
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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…