Ruminant With A View “That I have such a hat at all—some three feet in diameter, made of fine Carludovica palmate, bordered in iridescent mint ribbon and festooned with ashes-of-lilac flowers—necessitated first having…

Ruminant With A View “Alice gave my mother the gift and power of literacy. Of solid if simple Upstate-Carolina-Settler stock, my mother had great fluency in English: she was a natural scholar and…

Ruminant With A View “Father Theologos, whose sentimental education had progressed apace over the winter, showed up at our house one spring morning to find the doctor and me on our verandah, me…

“All of us who fall are mythical: Elpenor and Icarus and I./Callow, fearless, mythical, misplaced, and mourned. Oh deeply mourned./But not unburied.”—Elizabeth Boleman-Herring Ruminant With A View By Elizabeth Boleman-Herring BRIDGE & TUNNEL…

“Since October 1, 2013, my then-63-year-old husband and I had spent hours and hours and hours, online and on the Affordable Care Act 800-Number, trying simply to enroll for ‘Obamacare.’ We would both…

“My long-running if shallow rumination on women and weight, women and fat, women and body image really began in the college dorms of the University of Georgia at Athens, and continues to this…

“I don’t know Richard Shoop’s whole story. I know well the pizza place where he worked, and the supportive family who run the place. I’m sure Richard’s handed off pizzas to my husband…

“I’ve been deathly afraid of shots since early childhood, when my uncle, Dr. Jeff Newton Webb, of Seneca, South Carolina, who loathed little children (and, now, I do see his point, on occasion),…

“When I attempt to describe the culture in which I live to residents of countries where excellence is still pursued, citizens still engage with one another in rational, multifaceted discourse, literacy is increasing,…

“I have a cell phone and, were I to be stranded by the roadside, or set upon by Java midlets, I would use it but, otherwise, it is turned off. I’m not even…