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“Miss Mannahs Driven To Distraction In Teaneck NJ”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—8/16/10—“Nation,” I say, conflating Colbert and Stewart, “I give up!” Were we all born in a barn? The same barn? Is it only this…
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Installment Two: The Continuing Saga Of William Victor Bernson III, AKA Greg (Lloyd) Smith, Jennifer Monroe, Dr. Tobias Bernstein, David Alexander & Brian Richards, Con-Man
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring (For Installment One of this saga, please return to the Weekly Hubris archives via this hot link: Greg Lloyd Smith, William Victor Bernson III, AKA .…
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“Have A Heart, Dick Cheney”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” —Longfellow…
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“Woman Buys Bathing Suit; Then Opens Wrists”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—7/12/10—I shouldn’t joke about suicide. I’ve just come through Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion surgery, aka The Valley of The Shadow of Death, and I…
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“I Inhaled, Dear Reader, Briefly”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—6/28/10—I was brought up a Presbyterian. In Pasadena. In the 1950’s. If you’re an anthropologist, just that one sentence, and pair of sentence fragments,…
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“A Late, Ardent Convert To Cheese In Her Wheel-House”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Note: Ruminant, still largely flat on her back due to spinal fusion surgery, submits this earlier, but still heart-felt, column. . . TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—6/14/10—There, nestled…
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“Travelocity Dot CON!”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring 38,000ft Over Fort Wayne, IN—(Weekly Hubris)—5/31/10—Travelocity.con. And, no, that’s not a typo. As a travel writer who’s been recommending Travelocity, Expedia, Cheap Tickets, AirGorilla, etc., etc.,…
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“Wise Words From A Warless Warrior”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—5/24/10—Well in advance of spinal fusion surgery, I am sharing these words (mostly not my own) with you. Every day, I receive three distinct…
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“No Country For Young Men”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Due to my upcoming spinal fusion surgery, I’m running some previously published columns till I’m once again comfortable sitting in a computer chair (or anywhere else,…
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“Just Do It Because I Say So”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—5/10/10—If I remember correctly, the poem comprised 61 lines. I was 12 years old, and there was no way one could “get out of”…