FOTO FRIDAY this week is something I have not seen before and demonstrates how marketing is finally figuring it out regarding labeling products for specific clients. In this case a pretty untapped market.
Some Jewish homes follow a strict dietary observance during the holiday of Passover which begins tonight. To tell you it's not easy to find specific products for the holiday is an understatement and then every once in a while either an unexpected thing happens and lo and behold a product appears to make life easier.
In the cooler there sits orange juice marked Kosher for Passover and NON GMO no less... Wonders never cease.
Happy Passover to all you orange juice lovers !
TBT this week takes us back to April 14, 1987. Son Steven had entered this world 2 weeks earlier on April 1st, no fooling. Passover that year was not as early as this year, but close. (The lunar calendar changes holiday dates) What this meant though is that his birthday sometimes would fall on Passover and he would have a sponge cake rather than a regular birthday cake as we would not have any foods with leavening agents nor flour products during the holiday.)
We celebrated the first Passover seder in the Quad Cities but the second night was at home. This year granddaughter Hannah who recently turned 7 months will be celebrating her first Passover's 2nd seder night at her home in Atlanta. Perhaps in 31 years she too can look back at a photo of her first seder at home.
Happy Passover to those celebrating / Have a blessed Easter with family and friends and enjoy making new memories!
Sunday was our last play this season as Milwaukee Rep subscribers. I had kept up my subscription once moving to the opposite side of Wisconsin thirteen years ago. Besides good theater it was a great opportunity to visit friends, favorite restaurants and even some big city shopping. Over the years due to distance, weather and most importantly mediocrity rather than superior performances, I let the subscription lapse. I would just wait for good reviews to purchase specific play tickets. Then a couple of years ago the play choices and direction improved and for the last couple of years our season subscription has been renewed. This past season didn't disappoint and this Sunday's World Premiere last performance of One House Over was outstanding. Wonderful set, acting and script.
If One House Over comes your way it is a must see. The play has one setting, a Chicago brick bungalow's back yard which reminded me of bohemian Berwyn, a Chicago suburb along Cermak Road. The cast consisted of 5 actors: an elderly czech male who lives with his daughter, a divorcee violin teacher, the young Mexican couple who live in the house's basement, the husband's kitchen staff in an Italian restaurant and his wife is the newly hired caretaker for the czech man and the nosy next door neighbor. That's it.
What does it mean to be a good neighbor?
This play is all about borders and boundaries, some set, some spoken, some unspoken and some changing due to time, circumstances and of course power. A microcosm of racism in one household learning to face their prejudices. Those who arrived with a golden ticket and those who didn't. One House Over is an excellent production where the fences which now separate backyards also separate us as human beings.
One House Over lends itself to so much timely introspection and discussion. We sat there in the Quadracci surrounded by the very same stereotypes and race relation issues portrayed in the play and yes, the common ground which also unites us.
Perhaps you too will join us for the Milwaukee Rep's 65th Anniversary season. It looks like a very special one and we are hitting the Sunday matinees next season! BTW Much easier with the driving. Special pricing ends this week.
Promises, promises. You'd think I was a politician but I am going to keep this one promise and it was to give you a look at how Jewel D. Le Mississippi is progressing.
Thanks to others and their generosity of sharing their costume jewelry and baubles Jewel is coming right along for her debut in the Down Syndrome fundraiser Light Up a Life where she and 9 other mannequins will become floor lamps to be auctioned off to the highest bidders.
So right now for the progress after 5 tubes of E6000 glue and I'm guessing about a 100 hrs so far in labor.
Are you ready? Drum roll please.
I know of at least 4 more kind souls with promises for more donations including beach finds. This gal is sure to light up some lives...
In a week's time of getting the word out La Crosse joined the over 700 rallies nationwide to March for Our Lives. Natureman was one of the organizers here and my heart was full and emotional to see our Coulee region participating.
Tears welled with the sight seeing over 700,000 marchers taking over D.C. streets in addition to our 700+ participants here in small local Cameron Park.
Citizens from every age, walk of life and race participated as this is a nonpartisan issue. Single/married folk, parents, grand parents walking with children.
The bottom line is our country's love affair with guns is affecting our children's lives every day. In the Saturday rallies children espoused courageous conviction in their disdain of guns taking lives not only in their schools but on their home streets and reminded us adults that eventually they will have the power to vote.
Our generation of adults have failed our nation's children in our election of spineless politicians who favor lining their pockets with NRA monies rather than those who do what is morally and ethically right for our society's welfare.
What can you do?
Get out and vote in every election and let your voices be heard. Change does not come easy but we are losing way too many lives..
FOTO FRIDAY this week begins the holiday preparations and yep 3 dozen matzoh balls are ready in the freezer and awaiting some chicken soup next Friday night.
Hopefully the weather will behave and we can get to Milwaukee on Sunday and go grocery shopping for that chicken for that soup along with with a nice shopping list of ingredients we can't find in the store here like chicken schmaltz to be exact.
Yep, Friday marks the first seder and there 's a lot to do before then!
El tiempo vuela. Time flies. 35 years ago here's a visit with Little Rock friends, now my daughter, the baby in this photo has her own daughter about the same age...
