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Advice from a Grandmother

01 Wednesday Jan 2020

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A fun way to start the New Year with a amusing letter written by my grandmother 38 years ago.

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Invocation #63: Number our Days

04 Saturday May 2019

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It’s is written: Teach us, O Lord, to number our days Number our days? To remind us that our days …

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Perspective on Taxes

12 Tuesday Feb 2019

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In 1964, my grandmother Rose Ridnor shared her perspective on taxes. It rings true today.

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You Who Knew Me

23 Saturday Jun 2018

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Rose Ridnor, Morris Ridnor, Julie Lary, Douglas Ridnor, David Stark, Steven Ridnor, Dennis Ridnor

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I’ve been slowly going through my grandmother Rose Ridnor’s notebooks and writings, and found the poem below: Remember me  Let …

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Invocation #62: May

13 Sunday May 2018

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Final invocation written by Rose Ridnor, posted on rajalary by Julie Lary

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War

11 Tuesday Apr 2017

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On January 20, 1991, my grandmother Rose Ridnor wrote an essay about war. It was a month before the end …

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An Attitude

24 Friday Mar 2017

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My grandmother, Rose Ridnor, wrote a series of short essays under the title “Apropos.” This morning, while flipping through her …

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Invocation #49: Who Chooses to Go?

18 Saturday Feb 2017

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Vi telephoned her friend Nora to extend her condolences on the sudden, unexpected death of her long-time husband. After listening …

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Grow Another Me

19 Wednesday Oct 2016

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The following essay was written by my grandmother, Rose Ridnor. I found it humorous because I’m often precariously balanced on a ladder, in the middle of summer, trimming the dead flowers off our two lilacs in Mount Vernon, WA. And while I have the clippers, the nearby apple trees also gets a trimming.

The lilac tree was long overdue for pruning. This particular morning, after spending almost two hours pulling weeds, cutting, and cleaning up the front and side of the house, I was finally ready to begin trimming the lilac. When I as more than half done, I found I was getting terribly tired.

The burning sun had followed me all morning, making my face flush and sticky with sweat. My legs ached from leaning against the runs of the ladder, my hands were stiff from wielding the clippers. I just had to finish. Stop now and who knows when I could get back to it. So I pushed harder with the clipping and snipping to finish faster.

I was concentrating hard on lopping off a heavy branch, my mind as blank as it could get, when out of the blue, a line of words popped into my head. It was odd. I eased off a second to repeat it to myself, “I can always plant another tree, but I can never grow another me.”

Apple blossom
Apple blossom
Lilac
Lilac
Raspberry lilac
Raspberry lilac

Quickly, I fathomed its meaning, and for a moment was tempted to heed its message. But no, I couldn’t stop now. I had to finish.

But it kept bugging me. Why am I pushing myself? What am I out to prove? I have just so much energy, exhaust it, and I’m finished. The tree doesn’t give a darn whether I cut off its dead flowers or crowded limbs. It will just go on doing what it has to do: Grow and produce more flowers that will die, and I’ll have to cut off.

I set the clippers down, stepped off the ladder, went into the den, and plopped into a chair. I could feel the tiredness ease out of my body.

Ten minutes later, quite refreshed, I went out, put away the ladder and tools, left the sweeping to Morris [husband], and that was that! I didn’t hear one word of protest from the lilac tree.

Life is a constant weighing of the importance of one’s own self in relation to everyone, and everything else.

Rose’s Index Cards: Meats

06 Monday Jul 2015

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I suspect my grandmother, Rose Ridnor, didn’t have a recipe book to flip through for ideas on what to fix for dinner. She therefore had lists on index cards, such as this one for meats, which provided ideas. Because my grandparents grew up in the tenements in New York, they were always very frugal, eating little meat, and supplementing main courses with bread, potatoes, pasta, kasha, and other grains.

For the most part, my grandparent’s subsisted on lower quality cuts of meat, cooked for hours, and subsequently labeled “pot roast.” My grandmother would always add potatoes and carrots an hour or so before the roast was done to make a more substantial meal. Pot roast

My also routinely roasting or boiling chicken. The broth from the latter was turned into chicken soup with carrots, celery, onions, homemade noodles, and kneidlach (soft matzos balls).

For special occasions, my grandmother made tiny sweet and sour meatballs, which were eaten with crushed matzos. The sauce was made from ketchup, brown sugar, and white vinegar.

I don’t recall her ever making lamb, veal, steak, or fresh fish. Maybe my grandfather didn’t like fish so it was disguised as gefilte fish, lox, herring, kippers, and canned and smoked salmon. Below is her recipe for scalloped salmon, which was showcases how a can of salmon can ended up serving several people, possible for multiple meals.

Beef

  • Roast
  • Pot roast
  • Stew
  • Spiced
  • Boiled
  • Corned
  • Casserole

Steak

  • Swiss
  • Swiss Fried
  • Chuck
  • Broiled
  • Pan fried
  • Stuffed
  • Flank
  • Chicken fried
  • Pounded

Ground

  • Broiled
  • Pan
  • Meat balls
  • Sweet & sour
  • Tamale pie
  • Barbeque sauce
  • Cabbage
  • Ground pepper loaf

Lamb

  • Roast
  • Ribs
  • Stew
  • Barley
  • Ground patties
  • Ground balls
  • Chops fried
  • Chops pan fried
  • Breast stuffed?

Veal

  • Roast
  • Stew
  • Chop
  • Stuffed

Chicken

  • Boiled
  • Fried
  • Roast
  • Sweet & sour
  • Fricassee
  • Salad
  • Olympic

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