Happy Easter With Eggs and Ham

It is Easter Sunday. Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate, with or without eggs, or ham.

Plotnik has always thought Easter seems like a fun holiday. Bad things happened and now they're reversed. It's like Passover -- bad things happened and now we eat.

Easter and Passover are almost always connected. You search for eggs and if you find the most eggs you win. You search for the hidden matzo and if you find it you get money. Moses leads his people across an impossible sea into the promised land of Canaan. Jesus disappears from his burial cave and leads his people into the promised land of eternal salvation.

Why did Jesus have to die? Jews can't ever figure that one out. It seems so unnecessary, if your father is who you say He is.

Why did Moses have to run through the desert? That's a hard one too. If He can bring forth boils and frogs, surely he could just choke Pharoah and give Egypt to you, if your partner in the operation is who you say He is.

All those paintings, done with so much love, of the Last Supper. Scholarship now says The Last Supper was a Passover seder, though none of the pictures show any women. How can you have a seder without women? Plotnik thinks it was more probably a meeting of accountants planning a fund raiser for the gift shop.

Easter is special to TGP and TGD. They spent their first weekend together in cold and windy Martha's Vineyard, Mass. They didn't remember it was Easter Sunday until the innkeeper banged on their door and yelled: "Get up! It's Easter!"

All these years later, and here they are in Saint Plotniko, which is kind of a holiday in itself.