Y ES, WE TSP SISTERS ARE MAKING POTATO SALAD in all its versions, to kick off another sisterly recipe swap this holiday weekend. You could just get a needed laugh from the dancing potato-salad triplets above, circa 1944, or actually go grab and share recipes. Sister Marion’s got the one that sealed her marriage; our Sister Paige offers hers, and vintage goodies from her wild recipe-box collection. Click those two links to enjoy. Happy 4th!
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O UR FAVORITE PETITE FRENCHIE, Capucine, who’s like a baby sister to all of us at TSP, turned 5 last week, and her mama made a tribute video for her. Help Anastasia wish Capucine a Bon Anniversaire!
By Sheilaa Hite
SUMMERTIME AND THE LIVIN’ IS EASY” and, “When a bee lies sleeping in the palm of your hand” are lines from two of my favorite songs. Both lines speak of an idyllic time when all the forces of nature relax and live together in harmony. By simply allowing yourself to be in sync with life, rather than trying to control it, you’ll automatically flow with the current—and then, effortlessly—you’ll find yourself in perfect alignment with Universal harmony. [click to continue…]
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CONGRATULATIONS TO Leta (of dooce.com fame), on her new role as big sister from all of us at TSP! We’ve been speculating about this sisterhood like the rest of the world, and welcome Leta and Marlo to the ranks of sisterhood with blessings. The image above was posted on Flickr by the proud father, and shot (get this) by his sister, the perfect person to capture the moment of the siblings’ connection.
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ARE YOU WRITING SOMETHING? Don’t be shy; everybody is writing something about their lives these days (isn’t that what blogging is?). Though school’s out for the summer where our sister Marion teaches memoir writing, she’s offering up some tactics here to help us sisters get it all down. The first installment is an exercise about finding the story among all those details. You can read it here.
Photo by Ann Clifford/LIFE Images
TODAY’S THE DAY to wish a fond “Happy Birthday” to one of my favorite actresses and comediennes, the breathtakingly funny Gilda Radner, who made her mark on Saturday Night Live with characters like the brassy newscaster Rosanne Rosannadanna and the goofy, geeky fiancée of Bill Murray, Emily Litela. Gilda’s timing and fearlessness were unparalleled, but her funny was also full of wisdom. [click to continue…]
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SISTER PAIGE MADE HERSELF YET ANOTHER TO-DO LIST, but this list involves fireflies and running in the rain and maybe, just maybe, a grown-up sleepaway with her husband. Read her 10 summer goals, and share yours.
THE MOVIE ADAPTATION of Jodi Picoult’s best-selling novel, My Sister’s Keeper, opens today. We at TSP haven’t seen it yet, but it seems like a natural addition to our list of ultimate sister flicks. [click to continue…]
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WE’VE TRAVERSED A LONG list of subjects and stories on how to live with a sister (and as a sister), but one of the most poignant topics that keeps emerging from the narrative of TSP is how do live when a sister is lost. A reader and member of our growing TSP family, Gabi Coatsworth, shared a poem with us in a comment, a poem about struggling to reconcile the death of her sister. We’d like to share it with you: [click to continue…]
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I DON’T KNOW WHAT BROUGHT ME TO RENT Brick Lane, the story of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi girl separated from her sister and sent to London to face an arranged marriage with a man twice her age, and to face years of longing for her sibling. I cannot recommend it more highly, but to be clear, it was not some sad tale of loss and more loss, but full of surprises. Like these: [click to continue…]
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Lindsay Keating-Moore's Feminist Montage Dress
P UTTING TOGETHER LAST week’s musing on the Brontë sisters, I stumbled upon the work of Minneapolis artist Lindsay Keating-Moore, who hand-cuts stencil portraits of famous feminists and uses the stencils to decorate recycled T-shirts and dresses, even buttons. The portraits are strong and gorgeous, the clothing fantastic, and the footprint enviable: about as green as you can get. Have a look, in a slideshow: [click to continue…]
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U NABLE TO HELP OURSELVES OR SHOW RESTRAINT (you know how *weak* and *silly* women are, don’t you?) the sisters of TSP acted impulsively to show you this video, which about sums up the gender gap and all other aspects of sexual discrimination. Phew! Thank you, almightly BBC (and specifically the program That Mitchell and Webb Look); you have the gift to make even the thorniest topics sound hilarious. You, BBC, are *ace* and have our endless love.
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T HE MIDDLE GIRL OF MOTHER MAYBELLE’S THREE DAUGHTERS, Valerie June Carter, was born on this day in June 1929. June’s duet of “Pine Tree” with her third husband, Johnny Cash, is our oldest TSP sister Margaret’s favorite of Johnny and June’s work together, from the 1973 album “Johnny Cash and His Woman.” We’re marking June Carter Cash’s birthday by sharing that song, a tale of jealousy, and of trust (the lyrics follow): [click to continue…]
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First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia
is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there. 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
