Happy Passover. . . with Witches & Dishes!

[ellenkushner]

So here I am in Cleveland, nominally helping my mother change over all her dishes & scrub her kitchen for Passover - but actually typing & waiting for her to get up from her latest nap.  She is 82, my dad's 83, and they are still living a very active life, in pretty full command of all their faculties & abilities - except for all this resting & napping business.  Most instructive.

And useful to me: In the old days of Pesach prep, I would have been kept busy for 12 straight hours, scrubbing & hauling & polishing...!  But now, mom is content to work quietly with Delia - who never gives her any backtalk, and waits patiently while she remembers where she put the sugar bowl - while I sit at the livingroom table fussing over the fact that The Witches of Lublin is airing this week on radio stations nationwide,* and Welcome to Bordertown is launching in paperback (with cool new cover) this Tuesday.  (blackholly & I will be running a Really Cool Contest as soon as the Blessed taraoshea  finishes her gorgeous redesign of the Bordertown website....!

I look forward to more resting and napping in future.

* Lots more stations than I thought are airing Witches!  Full list here (to the best of our knowledge).  And a big THANK YOU to whoever it is in Fayetteville, NC, who tipped the wink to WFSS on our behalf: the station says they were "alerted by a listener" to the show. And to my pals over at Sleeping Hedgehog for putting up the letter I just wrote to my friends in Boston about WGBH airing the show this Sunday at 9!

Comments

[rubygirl29.livejournal.com]

I still respond on LJ! It's a quiet night. Happy Passover from another Clevelander.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ninharris.livejournal.com]

Happy Passover, beautiful Ellen :), hope you have a wonderful rest as well.

(I don't comment much on LJ because, like Sarah Jessica Parker, I'm shy!)

[ewein2412]

I am told it's very "EMO" of me even to be on LiveJournal at all any more! (What is up with THAT.)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

OK, now I'm totally depressed.

Hey, what can I say - I AM EMO.

EMO, c'est moi.

[ewein2412]

don't be depressed! I thought it was kind of funny. The closest I can get to cool!

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

Don't cry emo sister-auntie!

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

This is GREAT. It led us to the 1964 version. Ellen hadn't known Carol Burnett was the original princess, so that was fun.

[ninharris.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I didn't know that either! I've heard the entire musical w/ Sarah Jessica Parker as a princess on the radio, back in the 90s, but I haven't been able to watch it yet, so YouTube's been a boon!