The seder on Friday night was grand. It had all the usual elements: Good food, good people, and everyone wincing at the sound of my singing voice. (I can't sing, but I never let that stop me.) One major topic of conversation at this seder focused on the Wicked Son: why do people make a forced distinction…
After most of the day, I've finally recovered from last night's Passover seder. I'm glad it's my practice to take the day off following the seder. I didn't get to sleep until about 3AM this morning, and the food coma lasted into this afternoon. It was a small seder, only five people. Even so, the discussion was…
This year the first night of Passover falls on a Monday evening, so I didn’t expect to have many people come. The turn-out looks to be higher than my expectations; we might have six people.
This year’s Passover seder (on Friday evening) is more logistically complex than previous years, even though the number of people is fewer.
I am going to a gaming party on Saturday June 27; that’s tomorrow as I write this. I’m going to wear a kilt. The problem is that I own three. Please help me choose which one to wear. Here are my choices. The links will take you to the closest image I could find of the kilt…
This year I organized my Passover seder at the home of Sabrina and Michael. This year, Passover and Easter fell on the same weekend. We wound up blending those two and the pagan holiday of Ostara into PassEastara. The seder went well. There were a total of 11 people there, making it one of the largest seders…
The theme for the seder this year turned out to be “family.” Three guests, who dearly wanted to come, could not due to family obligations. Of the seven guests we had this year, six of them (once enough wine was consumed) shared trials and tribulations associated with their family. Yes, I was one of the six. The one who didn’t share a family story came to my seder for the first time, and didn’t know most of the people there; they may have kept quiet.
This year we had five at the seder. This is about what I expected, since Erev Pesach fell on a Monday night.