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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…