RAISE A CUPCAKE today to Laura Ingalls Wilder, memoirist and chronicler extraordinaire, says Sister Paige, for whom the Little House books were a staple of childhood (and probably yours, too). More from Paige on this treasured “sister” on her birthday.
WHEN NEWS OF A COLLECTION OF 18 VINTAGE PHOTOS OF TWINS Maurine and Noreene reached The Sister Project one year ago today, we and our readers experienced a grand collective “Oh!” and worked to find out who these wonderful women were. The mystery got solved…but now, another chapter reveals itself, from a new commenter, Gary, who it turns out worked for 25 years in the camera shop where those photos got processed. Oh, my. Read Gary’s latest chapter in the tale: [click to continue…]
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DANCING ON TABLETOPS? And why not, says TSP’s Sister Marion. On February 5, 1959 Marilyn Monroe, Karen Blixen, and Carson McCullers had lunch. Oh yeah, Arthur Miller was there, too. Taking place in Nyack, New York, the event was hosted by McCullers in honor of the great Karen Blixen, whose pen name, of course, is Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa). The menu consisted of soufflé, oysters, grapes and champagne. After lunch there was dancing. On the table top. On the solid marble table top, to be specific. Or so Marion has read. And she loved every word.
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BRRR. BLECCH. IT’S FEBRUARY, SAYS SISTER PAIGE. In college, this meant something called “Feb Club,” an organized party every single night of the year’s bleakest, longest-feeling month. In real life, this means an escape from the winter blues comes through cooking and reading. Thanks to the net, Paige has found an incredible web of foodie blogging sisters and brothers whose recipes and reminiscences spirit her away to places much brighter and warmer. Come away with her to visit bloggers whose words and pictures are an escape as good as any exotic vacation, and a lot easier to come by.
SOMETIMES MARION CAN BE SUBTLE. And while no particular incident of that comes to mind right now, she’s sure she occasionally is. Though never when teaching memoir writing, so she knows for certain that she was not a bit subtle in a recent class when she simply declared a total moratorium on the self-congratulatory. Let her explain.
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WE WERE SO THRILLED TO SEE OUR SISTER-FRIEND (and neighbor) 50s Pam, aka Pam Kueber, in a video and profile on the Etsy blog today, showcasing the mid-mod world from 1940s to 1970s and espousing the theory “love the house you’re in.” That’s the brilliant, affordable, can-do message of her popular blog, Retro Renovation, a finalist in Apartment Therapy’s recent Homies award contest. Way to go, Pam, on all fronts. In case you missed The Sister Project on Etsy last year, here’s that link. (Fun photo of Pam by our longtime sister-friend, Erica Berger.)
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THE EXPLANATION FOR THIS POST IS SIMPLE: I just couldn’t help myself. Yes, we have the all-girl version here (a Christmas tradition on The Sister Project) but oh boy, this “alt” version is pretty swell, too, isn’t it? Welcome to the sisterhood, Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye.
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MUCH LIKE A PARTY at her house, Sister Marion says, the party in her mouth only goes well when some forethought is given to who sits next to whom. Chocolate and peanut butter? She hates ‘em as a couple; loves ‘em alone, which is the same damn thing she frequently hears herself say about many of her friends. Marion offers some favorite odd-combo recipes, and then asks this: Got a food combo that rocks your ‘buds, or one you can’t abide? What’s going on in your sorority, sister?
By Sheilaa Hite
THIS ‘3’ YEAR, NUMEROLOGICALLY SPEAKING, is also the Chinese Year of the Tiger, which begins on February 14, Valentine’s Day. Even though it’s a fast-paced year, we’ll all need to plan well and think things through before we act. Being centered and grounded will really help us deal with the drama, intensity and change that come in a Tiger year. We’ll experience rapid and far-reaching transformation in every aspect of our lives during this time of great opportunity. Our key phrase this year is “carpe diem!” Now for the individual forecasts: [click to continue…]
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REDHEADS IN THE KITCHEN could be what Milton had in mind when he coined the phrase “adding fuel to the flame,” says Sister Marion. Inviting a redhead into the kitchen certainly does add heat and color to the place, says Marion, who has rounded up her favorite cooks who share her flambe hair color. They’re all right here.
THIS IS IT, dear sisters, says TSP’S Paige. It’s now or never. Do or die. What’s so urgent? You have to sign up this week in order to participate in our first-ever Sister Project Cookbook Swap. Join us, and you’ll clean off a space on your own bookshelf just in time to receive a surprise cookbook from another TSP reader/cook. But wait, Ginsu Knife fans! That’s not all: Get the whole deal from Paige.
THANKS TO MARION, TSP’S PAIGE IS facing a challenge this week: to put together her own personal playlist, a measuring out of her life in coffeehouse tunes, if you will. This isn’t quite as easy as it sounds, she says, but Joni and Joan figured into her mix. The hits from Paige’s soundtrack (come add yours).
STOP FORWARDING HER EMAILS composed by some anonymous person about how much women love their sisters-friends, Marion says. If you want to tell a sister you love her, fill her heart with song. Send her the song that you shared, stomach down, ankles crossed, lying on her canopied bed while you wondered aloud if someone would ever ever ever love you, or the song you learned to teach one another your dance steps, or while you practiced making out against the mirror, or driving back to college. Or…(get Marion’s full list, and add yours).
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: 
As the suffix of its name suggests, 
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. 
