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Ah, it’s tax time again. Well, to be more accurate, it’s tax prep time–time to go through all the receipts and monthly statements from last year. I’ve done a fairly good job of setting things up in Quicken, so it’s not like the old, old days when I would have to sort through a shoebox [...]

There’s a Zen story about a teenage girl who got pregnant. She was frightened, so when her parents asked her who the father was, she lied and said it was the old Zen monk down the road. When the baby was born, the angry parents went to the monk’s little cottage and banged on his [...]

A water bearer in India delivered water in two large pots that he balanced on a long pole across his shoulders. One pot was sturdy, but the other pot had a crack in it. In the time it took the water bearer to walk from the stream to the master’s house, the flawed pot lost [...]