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“The New Poverty”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring SANTORINI, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/25/10—This morning (a heavenly one, here in the Cyclades), I stopped into what my grandmother would have called a “notions” shop, here in the…
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Bleak House on Mykonos
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring MYKONOS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—10/11/10—The only foreign-language bookstore on this Greek, Cycladic island, Mykonos, which I have this year been visiting for half a century, closed its doors…
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The Siren Song of the Open, Spiritual Road
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring MYKONOS, Greece—(Weekly Hubris)—9/27/10—A couple of nights ago, at about three in the morning, the mosquitoes of Ornos Beach, here on Mykonos, finally got my goat, as…
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The Wounded Yogini: Back To Base Camp
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—9/13/10—My father was a dinosaur even before his premature death, of stroke, in 1972. He was a non-proselytizing Presbyterian; a quiet, if not silent,…
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Howard Stern Speaks To Floyd The Groundhog
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—9/6/10—Floyd was named for a tall, tough, teen-aged fourth-grader with whom James Thurber went to grammar school. Big for his age, and even bigger…
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“The Mosque At Ground Zero”
Ruminant With A View by Elizabeth Boleman-Herring TEANECK, NJ—(Weekly Hubris)—8/23/10—Gentle Readers, this will be more of a meditation than a column, and I pray I can keep it short, as our attention spans…
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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…