Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “I think the trick now is to do something that’s not just part of the noise.” —Larry Gelbart (Producer of the TV series, “Mash”) TEANECK New…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Author’s Note: This column was first published exactly three years ago, when Barack Obama was campaigning for his first term as President of The United States.…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—6/27/11—My first memories feature fear. Fear, solitude, “unreality,” the night, and unconsciousness. Or a type of consciousness, a species of unreality we choose…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—6/20/11—There, nestled amongst the pages of my beloved New Yorker magazine was Michael Savage (like a cockroach in my crème brûlée) saying: “I still…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK New Jersey—(Weekly Hubris)—6/6/11—Years ago, when a favorite aunt of mine suddenly died, her sisters were astonished to find her cupboards filled with new linens, handguns…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Somewhere in SOUTH CAROLINA—(Weekly Hubris)—5/23/11—My roots in South Carolina go deep. Eight generations, we figure, my first cousin, Lon*, and I. Lon is a little over…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—5/16/11—As I write here, on my iPod I’m listening to a now obscure album by Mick Fleetwood (and others) called “The Visitor.” The lyrics…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—4/25/11—After a decade of balancing (gracefully if insanely), like a half-century-old angel on the head of a pin, practicing and then joyously teaching Yoga,…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “[“The Last Word”’s Lawrence] O’Donnell then turned to an email which he said came from a friend of his who used Planned Parenthood. He read the…

Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “First, do no harm.” —attrib. to Hippocrates Note: Early in March, the author entered, and exited post haste, an N.I.H. clinical trial considering two drugs in…