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by Paige Smith Orloff
The Ladies Auxiliary, that is. Our favorite sources for vintage recipes have tons to share when it comes to an all-American side dish perfect for the Fourth. Are you planning your cookouts? Get some inspiration from sisterhoods of the past, right here.
By Paige Smith Orloff
FORMER ACTRESS, CURRENT author Meg Tilly (famous since the early 80s – Big Chill, anyone?) is now a blogger. Who’s not, right? OK, but Meg’s blog world includes her own musings, a joint blog with daughter Emily Zinnemann, and Emily’s own shared blog with her non-friend, Sheera. My head is spinning a bit from the meta of it all, but these women can write, and their views of all manner of sisterly relations are fascinating… [click to continue…]
PAIGE BLAMES THE royal wedding. Though she says she was far from obsessed, let’s face it, the news of Kate and Wills was inescapable. Is that why her daughter started bringing home English history tomes from the school library? Read on.
THE MIDDLE ROAD. That’s where Paige and Marion, our Aries kin, are headed this month according to Sheilaa Hite’s May forecast. It’s a bit of a foreign place for Marion (Find out why.) As for Paige, the middle seems a journey that will likely extend far past this month, so meanwhile she’s enlisted some help to get her there. Read about it here.
APRIL, FAMOUSLY THE cruelest month, at least according to poet T.S. Eliot and those writing big checks to the IRS today, is also the most poetical. Today marks the midpoint of National Poetry Month, and here on TSP, we loves us some poems. Distract yourself from taxation–we’ve got sisterly sonnets (and free verse, and haiku, and sestinas…) [click to continue…]
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AFTER A HOLIDAY season of massive indulgence, the new year brought Paige a new resolve: she’s gone sugar-free (at least, mostly.) She’s coping surprisingly well without her nightly chocolate fix (thanks for asking). She’s giving credit to some great online resources. Want to join her pursuit of a healthier sweet life? Read on…
HOW FAR WOULD you go for a sister? In a stroke of synchronicity, that’s the question popping up every where in Paige’s life this week, from her guilty pleasure entertainment to her online workshop in wholehearted living. Need a good test for the sisters in your life (not to mention some perfect snow-day entertainment)? Read on.
THE OLDER PAIGE’S kids get, the more she has to work to understand the interests they find all on their own. This plays out every morning during the ride to school, when the three have to find common ground on iTunes.
Do you struggle to mesh your kids’ passions with your own? Read on…
By Paige Smith Orloff
PIE, AT LEAST THE FRUIT VARIETY, is supposed to be simple, in my not so humble opinion. I don’t need custard or crumble. If the fruit is fine, you don’t need much else to reach a level of delicious often unmatched by other, fancier desserts. So my third-place pie recipe is a winner with me.
Shauna, Danny and Lu, photographed by Todd Porter and Diane Cu of White on Rice Couple
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By Paige Smith Orloff
I CAN’T SAY I wasn’t warned. Sheilaa Hite, our lovely in-house (in-blog?) astrologer-extraordinaire, told us all to be careful. But oh, my, what is going on?
ONLY WHEN I sat down to contemplate this week’s Summer Fest assignment did I face up to this paradoxical truth: I put garlic in just about everything I make, and I am also a garlic avoider. Here’s my story.
By Paige Smith Orloff
JUST LAST WEEK, a Twitter friend turned me on to this video of punk’s godmother Patti Smith covering a song Debbie Boone made famous, “You Light Up My Life.” At the risk of overstatement, It’s brilliant, and there’s something so tender about the juxtaposition of song and singer, not to mention Smith’s tenderness with kids in the studio audience (the performance was for a kids’ variety show) that I had to watch it over and over. Here’s why.
IN THE GALLERIES: Chick art by Sloane Tanen.
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.
