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eese parsley mix well spoon on open buns sprinkle some cheese on top brown under broiler till melted read more third day of christmas amazing aunts zuska december 27 2017 how to grow a zuska tales from the coal patch women i have known the three wise aunts next door aunt nellie across the street aunt mary and catty corner across the street was aunt stella these were in fact my great aunts mary was sister to my mother s mother nellie sister to mom s father and stella was married to a brother of mom s father mom bereft of her mother relied heavily on these women in the early years of her marriage aunt stella was an exceptional baker she took over the thrice weekly bread baking for the family after my grandmother s death until enough time had passed that she deemed it acceptable to gently suggest to mom and her sister betty that perhaps it was time they learn to master this task aunt stella was famed for her cookies and pastries there was always something delicious in her kitchen in addition there was a swing in her backyard my sister and i would obtain permission from mom to trot across the street knock on the door and ask if we could play on the swing i can still see in my mind s eye the gentle smile on aunt stella s face and in her eyes the answer was always yes mom sternly instructed us ahead of time never to ask aunt stella for anything to eat but we nearly always got a cookie oftentimes it was a ladylock and no one made better ladylocks than aunt stella by no one i mean no one in the entire universe of cookies near the end of her life she did teach a young woman in town how to make them and hers are nearly as good as aunt stella s were only nearly as good because nothing in the world will ever taste like the freshly made ladylocks aunt stella placed in our grubby little hands on a warm spring afternoon when we were six and seven years old aunt mary and aunt stella accompanied my father and mother on the epic trip to the hospital late on the wintry january night of my birth the hospital was a good thirty minutes drive away and mom s water had already broken at home as she was mopping the kitchen floor as you do at the end of your ninth month after 11 pm when the other four kids are already in bed aunt nellie stayed with pappap and the kids aunt mary and aunt stella came along to help out mom because i seemed to be as pappap later said in a hurry to get into this world in a hurry i was and just a mile or so out of town mom said ed you d better pull the car over this baby is coming to which my frantic father famously replied can t you just cross your legs ed pull the car over the baby s head is coming out and so i was born along the side of a road in the back seat of the car with the aunts presiding aunt nellie features in many stories about mom learning to cook as she was right next door mom would often run over for advice the first time mom made thanksgiving turkey she asked how is the gravy made aunt nellie told her to take the neck and boil it in some water and save that water to use for the gravy mix with some flour and use to thicken for the gravy later she asked mom how the gravy came out not so good mom reported it was thin and gray and watery and had not much flavor how did you make it aunt nellie asked i saved that neck water like you said and i added flour to it and it got a little thick but it didn t have good color and it didn t have much taste so aunt nellie naturally wondered what had she done with the pan drippings oh i threw those out and here you have to picture aunt nellie s clenched fingertips flying up to her mouth face scrunched in shock and dismay as she squeals screams cries out oooooooooooohhhhhhhmmmmmnnnn in grief for all that flavor thrown away many years later i would cook thanksgiving dinner at a friend s house and labor carefully over the making of the gravy which came out in perfect consistency and astonishing flavor only to watch in horror after dinner as the friend jumped up from the table to announce the dog has been so good all through dinner he deserves a special treat he promptly filled a large bowl with kibble and poured three large ladles full of my gravy over the kibble o ooooooooooohhhhhhhmmmmmnnnn the list of amazing aunts is so long it would take a book chapter to cover them all there was of course aunt betty mom s older sister and best friend there were two by name of anna marie one very short and quiet and one very tall and exuberant two by name of rose the one in virginia she of the french toasted fruit sandwiches and one in exotic cleveland who had insisted on taking shop class rather than home ec in high school and who had met albert einstein while working in washington dc there was an aunt mary ann whom my mom raised from a young age and my dad had liked to tease aunt margie throughout her life tireless in caring for her family and the ill and elderly around her an aunt mary kathryn who was so kind to us over many years of our family tragedy and an aunt catherine adventurous enough to go off to live in texas funny and smart and beloved as was cleveland rose of my father that s just an intro to their names and a sketch of their ordering in constellations of my family sky if you had a day or two oh the stories i could tell and that s not even touching on the cousin of mom who functioned like aunts and the more distant great aunts the great aunts are long gone seven of my nine aunts still survive though some are in poor health for most of these women their careers were the home and family though a few did have paying gigs as well even so they were and are so different from one another and collectively they gave me many examples of adult womanhood for examination and inspiration the best of what i am able to do in nurturing others comes in part i am sure from what i absorbed from being in their presence amazing aunts how sweet they are read more things my mother liked zuska december 27 2017 if elder why care tales from the coal patch women i have known this was originally a storify tweeted out in 2013 shortly after my mother passed away i ve rescued it to here because as christina pikas reminds us storify is going away this spring sometimes i feel i understood little and lived as an overgrown adolescent most of my life maybe 6 or 7 years ago i began to attend more closely to my mother s life her life not just as my mother but as a person too late smart as they say the sunroof of my car she could feel the outside air without it blowing in her face and messing up her do thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 the community garden in the vacant lot beside the assisted living home parking lot kohlrabi from it in the spring thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 corn on the cob from duda s farmstand in masontown the best corn in the world she said thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 the guiding light and reva shane o why did you go off the air thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 the rose bush in her front yard with profuse blossoms and delicate scent it thrived as long as she did thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 hummingbirds that came to her front porch feeder she worried for them when she moved to assisted living thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 bananas oh bananas one every day please thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 baseball football hockey pirates steelers penguins fan she d watch any game filled out bracket 4 march madness thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 bingo and a card with i 23 please thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 her rosary beads devout catholic she was always bending mary s ear for her family and the world thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 cheetos heart condition diabetes but cheetos still so good during a ball game thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 her best friend and older sister betty we are lonely together aunt betty thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 babies her own her grandkids her great grands anyone s really even babies on tv commercials made her happy thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 driving not 4 itself but 4 freedom 2 c family learned at age 57 after her husband unexpectedly died thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 the post office many s the time she walked to p o with grandchild in tow thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 daily mail could not wait to see what it brought even if only bills and junk thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 her cousin across the street he brought the mail when she could no longer go looked out 4 her her home thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 a meal out anywhere even when it was hospital food because i don t have to cook and clean thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 but also feeding her family when will you be getting home so i can have something ready thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 a cup of coffee just so not too hot or cold not too strong or weak few satisfied eat n park often a winner thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 a shared cup of tea she called we each made tea and talked thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 her mother s good knife be sure to dry it after you wash it so it doesn t rust thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 dreaming on lottery tickets if i win i m gonna pay off all my kids bills buy a house cape hatteras for every1 thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 the herald standard her daily paper she wd clip items send them to her kids did u c this news on migraine thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 6 2013 public libraries she took her kids to them when young volunteered in them when old thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 6 2013 dandelion bouquets when i was little she put their short stems in a shot glass vase thingsmymotherliked tszuska tszuska march 5 2013 read more second day of christmas sisters and cousins zuska december 27 2017 how to grow a zuska tales from the coal patch uncategorized women i have known sisters and cousins i was surrounded by embedded in a web of these growing up i grew up with two sisters one a year and a half younger one four years older down the street from us lived our second cousins also a family of three girls and three boys the girls approximately the same ages as we were my sisters and i were all in the marching band as were the second cousins down the street we had first cousins across town a five minute walk they too were in the marching band j was the same age as my older sister d a year older and i was just a year younger than p seven miles away in the town where my father grew up lived my aunt betty s family her three children were more the age my two oldest brothers b the youngest worked summers at the concession stand of the public swimming pool clutching a precious nickel and dime or perhaps a quarter making our way in dripping wet suits from poolside to the concession stand in the middle of the park under shade trees it was always more special to get our candy bar or slice of pizza when b was behind the sliding screen window also sometimes b gave us an extra slice of pizza to share on the house which made us feel enormously privileged and fortunate b s father was italian italian and b had inherited his coloring and handsome features in my slovak world of studda bubbas she was a bella stella there were a slew of other cousins we saw only on holidays or at family reunions from ohio and virginia and maryland eighteen of them first cousins as well as uncounted second cousins whose names and connections to ourselves we often had to relearn each year at reunion time these were just the relatives on my mother s side cousins did not sprout quite like weeds on dad s side of the family but there was still a good crop eight first cousins in pittsburgh ohio and by god texas it boggled the mind to think we were related to someone who lived in texas it almost made it a real place we had a second cousin in michigan too she always arrived with a full complement of barbie dolls and exotic barbie doll clothes whenever her family came back to visit coming back to visit was what a lot of people who had gone away did and did frequently in lieu of more exciting travel options this is the cousin with whom we played our barbies are witches who can make their boyfriends clean house photos of birthday parties from my young years are full of sisters cousins and a few non relative friends weddings which were a major form of social entertainment in the summers were always large affairs because everyone was related to everyone else and so everyone had to be invited one cousin managed to marry a man with an equally large and mostly non overlapping extended family and friends network and their wedding list topped out at around 500 souls the usual two sittings of family style dinner service at the fire hall were not enough it took three sittings to feed everyone and some people had not eaten until well after the dancing had begun i moved away from out of my web of sisters and cousins when i went off to college i missed family reunions weddings births first communions school plays shared events and rituals of daily life that bonded us all together i built a different kind of life for myself and it has been a satisfying one but i often miss that sense of connection and shared life experiences that made life growing up a cozy and comfortable if often stifling as well existence in recent years i have reconnected with some of my cousins much as we sometimes had to re learn our names and relationships to each other at family reunions in our adult life we have begun relearning what we can mean to each other sharing elder care experiences in some cases has been a trigger for a deeper bonding with a few all these cousins were in our lives because sisters in the generation s preceding ours had lived near one another and or made the effort to stay in touch with extended family through reunions and visits back to the old home place for the third day of christmas i ll be mediating on those wonderful women the aunts and the great aunts read more on the first day of christmas memories of mom zuska december 25 2017 how to grow a zuska tales from the coal patch women i have known i wrapped a package of two books for a little nine year old girl yesterday the witch of blackbird pond and island of the blue dolphins two favorites from my younger days there was always a book under the tree for me at christmas time and it was nice to pass along that memory and tradition it was a treat to spend part of christmas eve with the enthusiastic young recipient of the books she was quite absorbed with tracking santa s progress on her ipad dialing up his voicemail message and checking and rechecking her naughty or nice level using a finger scan app all of this brought to mind the letter to santa i had writ...