By Marion Roach Smith
TRADITIONAL MALE ROLES are heightened and added to when played by women. Think not? Have you seen Alien, The 40 Year Old Virgin, or the new Angelina Jolie vehicle, Salt? Major roles in all three were originally written for men, and, as played by women, became unforgettable. The sisterhood of stepping in–and stepping things up–is a good one, indeed. My 2 cents.
OUR FRIEND SUSAN SCHNEIDER, AKA SHANDELL’S DOT COM, has these retro-but-au courant matchboxes in her lineup this summer, and we cannot think of a better mantra for the moment. Remember crafty Susan, whom we have profiled before? Or you can just get a box of your own mantra-covered matches here. Om, baby.
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By Marion Roach Smith
SISTERS UNDER PRESSURE is always a good place from which to plot a story. After all, with all that history between any set of sisters (you didn’t really think you are the only one who has issues with your sister did you?), it’s a good bet that if you squeeze the pair a bit, some interesting things will happen. They do, in a new novel by Susan Rebecca White called A Soft Place to Land, and they do it quite well, indeed. The scoop.
By Paige Smith Orloff
I THOUGHT IT WAS ONLY PARENTS who felt (with guilt aplenty, of course) that they wished their children, sometimes, you know, just for a moment, time to collect one’s thoughts, or maybe just form a thought…could you all, please, just for a second, BE QUIET? Apparently, this is a sibling issue, too. A tale of how my son feels about little sister’s latest soliloquies.
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By Marion Roach Smith
AND YOU THOUGHT your family home was strange. How about growing upon a “divorce ranch,” one of the famous places where women who once wanted out of their marriages could live as “residents” while awaiting a Nevada divorce? Here’s what got me thinking of this.
"Rather than come to blows with his sister over the missing Lego tree, he sat beneath his prayer flags and let the feelings wash over him." (Photo: Dave Lauridsen; Dwell)
By Anastasia Smith
THE HILARIOUS PHOTO BLOG Unhappy Hipsters posts photos from trendy design magazines along with little satirical captions. Why I especially love its captions about siblings.
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zzzzzzzzz...on the couch before we left and then on the shores of the river.
By Anastasia Smith
HOW LUCKY AM I to be able spend some quality time with my brother T on his birthday? It’s been way too long since we hung out. (Six months!) To celebrate his 29th year, we brought a picnic lunch to the Green River. In true T style, however, all he wanted to do was nap. What the birthday boy wants, the birthday boy gets, right?
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By Paige Smith Orloff
WHO COULD RESIST a book with the subtitle “My Life in a Harem”? OK, probably a lot of people. But I’m not one of them. Read all about it.
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By Paige Smith Orloff
JULY IS A SUPER MONTH when it comes to festivities: Picnics galore, BBQ on the Fourth, and then it’s time to channel your inner Parisienne come the 14th, Bastille Day. Here’s how I’m doing it.
By Paige Smith Orloff
SOMETIMES, YOU JUST HAVE to read a book. You love (or know!) the author, the subject compels you, something on the dust jacket sucks you in, a review is so provocative you cannot skip it…I have hundreds of different paths to reading, but the one I took to my latest favorite read is roundabout, for sure–and yet, at least for my life here on TSP, it feels totally inevitable. Here’s what I’m reading, and why.
By Paige Smith Orloff
ACCORDING TO THE Harvard Business Review, more women are managing, in their words, to actually “have it all.” Maybe I missed the memo, but I thought we had all agreed to agree that having it all is actually impossible. Here’s why.
By Sheilaa Hite
ON JUNE 26, along with the full moon in Capricorn, there was also a full Lunar eclipse. All full moons and all eclipses–both Solar and Lunar–are intense. Lunar eclipses are all about letting go and their range of influence is about six months. They foretell of a very focused celestial mandate to help you let go of or release what is no longer necessary in your life. What usually gets released is old emotional baggage you may or may not have been aware that you were carrying around. Compounding the intensity of this Lunar eclipse, the full moon in Capricorn was also in the same sign and degree as the planet of intensity, release and letting go–Pluto. Phrases like “free fall” “go with the flow” and “just let go” are the best mantras–guides for this profound, transformational point in time. The individual forecasts follow: [click to continue…]
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By Marion Roach Smith
THERE’S CAMP, HIGH CAMP, and then there is sister camp, arguably the campiest-camp of all, certainly in the world of movies, where the reigning sister-camp pic is, of course, “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.” Happily it is not alone in the genre. Oh yes, there are others, my new favorite of which is “The Queen’s Sister.” Up for some sister camp, sisters? Here’s your film.
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. 
