Jenny Rae Rappaport
@jennyrae
Writer of SFF stories. Published in Nature, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. Member of Codex. Genealogist, too. All opinions are my own. She/her. www.jennyrae.com
I took the kids to a place to see dinosaurs, but it turns out that it's a whole festival here with nature booths. Anyway, please enjoy my new friend, the bottlenose dolphin skull. 🙂
Me: The NJ Transit app says that most of the cars on the train are lightly filled. This is good. Me, 10 min later: There are almost no seats left on this train, what the hell. 🙄
To elaborate on the lack of academic citations, let's imagine this is a genealogical citation, which is based on the Chicago Manual of Style. This is a screenshot from Walden's website, btw. (See next post for where the citations should go)
I'm researching the S.S. Graf Waldersee, for genealogy reasons, and I came across this article from The Boston Globe from May 1, 1912. It's eerie to think of the ship finding wreckage from the Titanic, which sunk two weeks before the article.
There are too many dumplings to take home on the train later today. I have no way to refrigerate them. I might leave them at the office for tomorrow?
Also, I adore the reliability of NJ Transit's app, completely failing to recognize the presence of not one, but TWO trains in the vicinity. 😂
We don't have a real cat at the moment, but my 9 year old insisted that Cheddar the stuffed cat needed to play, too. 🙂
I have a made a casserole thing with matzo, which is supposed to be a mina? It's tasty, but I remain convinced that it would be better with lasagna noodles (and maybe some cheese) rather than matzo layers.
Also, the piece de resistance, which was promptly devoured. Flourless chocolate cake with chocolate ganache. ❤️
Onwards, we go! The brisket is in the oven, the chicken drumsticks are cooked, and charoses is made. I no longer have feet; they hurt from standing so much. 🙃
Kugel done. Cake iced (autocorrect kept insisting "cake died".) Dinner break happening at some point. 🙃 Behold, part of a potato kugel.
I'm just saying, this headline makes me feel much less safe in this country.
I'm scanning in old photos that my grandmother left me, and I came across one of my grandfather & his friends in the US Navy. Is one of these men your relative? My grandfather is #5. I have a very faded list of the names on the back of the photo. Sid Weiss from Brooklyn seems to be #1. #genealogy
Look, my train was delayed tonight, ok? Please enjoy my fellow commuters. 🙂
When a blizzard is about to hit NJ, the "fancy" bread goes fast. 🙃
Today, I came across a person with the last name Kneidel. I love this SO MUCH. ❤️ #genealogy
My bad, it's actually even more than that, because they're tacking on a service fee. So if you had no discount code, you'd be paying $147.99. 😐
I love this quote. ❤️ "Nevertheless, there is right and there is wrong. There is good and there is evil. It is wrong to tell lies. It is wrong to disguise the nature of evil. It is not forward-looking to pretend that these deportations did not happen and that they did not inflict immense suffering."
This is the energy I'm bringing into this year. Only four more years of the 2020s to go! 🙃
Hello, it is me, standing in front of the tiny shul where my great-aunt was married in Montreal in 1930. It's quite small in person. ❤️