upsherin

I went to my college friends' fourth kid's upsherin, a first-haircut birthday party on his third birthday. I didn't expect much of this, since I think of an upsherin as a rather chassidic custom, not filled with meaning for me. But it was really nice.

( The rest of the event. Much Jewish terminology ahead. )

powellspeak

(from the newsletter today.... I keep finding this stuff irresistible...)

Spring brings out the worst in verbs, pronouns swear -- but of course
pronouns tend to generalize. (It's safe to say that subjects wouldn't have
dared threaten secession from predicates prior to the last election without
years of goading from an unforgiving, vocal pronoun minority.)