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Pictures of Ano Mera, Mykonos
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…
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Blue Highways To My Red State Home
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…
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My Other Hat: Jazz Lyricist
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…
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Home-Alone (Iyengar) Yoga
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,…
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The (Next) American Civil War: The Fire Next Time
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…
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One Flew OUT of the Cuckoo’s Nest or, A Human Lab Rat Takes on The N.I.H.’s “Clinical Trial Culture”
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…
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Walking the N.I.H. Labyrinth
Walking the N.I.H. Labyrinth Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: Early in March, the author entered, and exited post haste, an N.I.H. clinical trial considering two drugs in the battle against…
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My Indigo Twin: Living With Depression
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This column, in a slightly different form, appeared in another international publication in 2010. TEANECK NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—3/14/11—My first memory is of death. A dream of…
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Dummy For Yoga
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This column was first published on January 20, 2008, following my first class as an Iyengar-style Yoga teacher. TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—3/7/11—In the middle of my…
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In The Eyes of the Desert Sands: A Sufi Takes Flight
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: This column was first published on June 16, 2009. TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—2/21/11—It snowed last night in New Jersey. Not here in Teaneck. Farther south, if…