Late Night Buddhist
By Scott Taylor Reader Staff My grandpa used to have a small sign hanging in his woodshop with a quote that read: “Everyone you meet is in some way or another your superior.” He...
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The Late Night Buddhist
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of joining a mountain bike outing with four of the many athletic, kick-ass ladies who inhabit this beautiful playground in which...
The Late Night Buddhist
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist You may have heard the above question posed by one spouse to another amid a relationship spat (in the standard joke it applies to the husband, who learns the...
The Late Night Buddhist
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist I opened Pandora.com to my “Three Dog Night” station the other day, feeling nostalgic toward those late-’60s and early-’70s songs about love, debauchery, altered states and, oh yeah, changing...
The Late Night Buddhist: Stop Making Sense
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist You may have seen a cartoon similar to this somewhere: A man in a doctor’s office waves his arm around wildly and says, “Doc it hurts when I do...
The Late Night Buddhist
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist When I was teaching I used to have a few quotes posted around my classroom, including the title of this piece. I found it in a collection of “Zen...
The Late Night Buddhist: Go ask Alice
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist When I go back to small-town Illinois to see my youngest daughter, I stay with her and her husband in their tiny house. It’s not a “tiny house” in...
The Late Night Buddhist: Beer haters gonna hate
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist I was recently in Eichardt’s Pub (no big surprise there) on a Thursday night in January when they had scheduled a special event with Deschutes Brewery. The plan was...
The Late Night Buddhist: Pay it… somewhere
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist A few years ago I realized that I’d had enough of sitting behind a desk, trying to teach junior-high students the geography of central Asia or get high-school kids...
The Late Night Buddhist: Karma’s a bitch and then you die (over and over again)
By Scott Taylor Reader Columnist Remember the TV sitcom My Name Is Earl? In it, a scroungy, down-and-out, low-rent petty criminal believes that his past bad deeds were the reason for him losing his...
