You know what I learned today?

My favorite Passover meal, peanut butter & jelly on matzah? Is totally *NOT* Kosher for Passover.

Harumph.

... I spent the better part of this morning in Synagogue.

Yes, really.

OK, so there was a special reason why: Today they were unveiling my grandparents' memorial plaques at Beth Shalom, and my Mother wanted me to be there.

We went to what my Mother thought was just going to be the memorial service, but which really turned out to be the better ( Read more... )

aaronbenedict is gone again, observing two days of technological blackout for the final two days of Passover. It felt like as soon as we were able to talk to each other again, he had to say goodbye. We talked about that yesterday -- about religious observance. I thought about how many days he must take off from work in a year and I asked: If we were together ( Read more... )

OK, I took a lot of pictures today, so I'll likely break this up into (at least) two posts. But since I'm going to be up for a while (SNL, yo), I figured I'd at least get this started:

( Annapolis: Day 2 )

Twelve hours later and back at the hotel. Let's get yesterday's pictures finished before I get started on today's.

( Annapolis: Day 1, Part 2 )

Gut yontif, one and all.

If I were Observant, everything I'm doing right now would be considered wrong -- typing, using electronics ... but at the moment, the only things that feel really wrong are that I'm not at a seder, and that I have to be apart from aaronbenedict for three days ( Read more... )

Guess I haven't updated in a substantive way lately, huh?

First, here are ( some cute cats )

These are pictures from last Thursday in Boston, as well as traveling back from Boston to Pittsburgh:

( Boston: Day 3 )

Things have been nuts. Instead I'll post pictures:

( Polish Hill sunset )