A Witch Does Passover – 2016, part 1
This year’s Passover seder (on Friday evening) is more logistically complex than previous years, even though the number of people is fewer.
Help me choose a kilt to wear
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…
A Witch Does Passover – 2015
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…
A Witch Does Passover – 2014
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.
A Witch Does Passover – 2013
This year we had five at the seder. This is about what I expected, since Erev Pesach fell on a Monday night.
A Witch Does Passover – 2012
This year there were eight people at the seder, four of whom had not been to a formal Passover seder before. It was a grand seder, the discussion was stimulating, and the people were great! Among the things I learned:
A Witch Does Passover – 2011
There were only four people at the seder last night, but we discovered that the quality of a seder is not a function of the number of people. We had an awesome time.
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