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...Michael Downing, the author of four novels, including Breakfast With Scot, was an outsider to Buddhism before beginning the three years of research that went into his latest effort. With a newcomer's sense of discovery, Downing lays out the crowded, complex and extremely unlikely story of how the San Francisco Zen Center became the first genuine Buddhist institution ever established outside of Asia, and how it transformed from a roomful of earnest protohippies trying their hand at an exotic religious practice into what, for a time at least, was arguably the single most significant center of alternative spirituality...
Morning primp time: Five minutes. Roll out of bed, smell the clothes on the floor and grab some breakfast...
...seven: I accompany my father and mother on board a recently docked British destroyer in the harbor of Portsmouth, N.H. Tall, elegant officers of Her Majesty’s Navy ply us with toast, fried tomatoes and sausages during a formal breakfast. The captain barks at a subordinate in a white cap. I am enchanted. I, too, want a uniform...
...seller lists for six months. And sales of conical, clay Moroccan pots called tagines, left, are up. Behind the Crock-Pot's popularity: groovy new models (Michael Graves designed one for Black & Decker) and the fact that slow cooking requires less fat. "I can put the ingredients in at breakfast and then go to work all day," says Michelle Smith, 32. "We're less likely to turn to fast food...
Most blogs, to put it mildly, reflect just how bad writing would be without editors. Thousands of bloggers think, for reasons wholly unknown, that we care about what they had for breakfast or the saga of their leaking refrigerators. Conventional journalists, like Alex Beam in the Boston Globe, have seized on these slice-of-life bloggers to condemn the whole movement as justification of their own privileged status as those few who should be trusted to wield the pen in a public forum. Beam is half right—the world needs thrice daily updates on somebody?...