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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…
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The Big Lie of The Small Screen
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—2/14/11—I had an epiphany recently, during the Super Bowl, of all things. It came home to me that, whatever I see on a smallish,…
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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 TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—1/31/11—There will be a test. And, with Olbermann silenced, we may not pass it. Back when I stood behind a desk at the front…
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Dear Keith Olbermann (& MSNBC President, Phil “Worst Person in The World” Griffin) . . .
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “It is possible to move away from a vast, unbearable pain by delving into it deeper and deeper—by ‘diving into the wreck,’ to borrow the perfect…
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Don’t Give Me A Gun Permit, Please . . .
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—1/12/11—. . .because the person I would be most likely to shoot would be myself. I admit, openly, that were I to find myself…
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“Aunt Bill” & “Grandfather Pleas”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—1/3/11—“Christmas Gift!” boomed my Cousin Randy down the telephone from South Carolina. He’d “got me.” South Carolinians, if you haven’t figured it out by…
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Absolutely No Soliciting
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—12/20/10—I was going to title this column “Leave My God-D^%$ed Soul Alone.” But that seemed a little harsh. Especially at Christmas. Or Hanukkah. Or…