A network of blogs about sisters and sisterhoods of all kinds.
From the category archives:
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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SISTER MARION WAS ON AMERICAN IDOL. Did you know? Did you catch her? No? Well, she recorded it for you. “I think you’ll be really proud of me, sisters,” she says. “It went really, really well, like this:”
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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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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IS THERE ANYTHING more tragically hilarious than dated dating advice for women? A photo series from 1938 she saw on the Sad and Useless site had TSP’s Anastasia in stitches. From passing out before the date is over (like the poor gal above) to smearing too much lipstick on a man’s handkerchief, all the dating “donts” you’ll ever need are right here.
THE MUSTACHE SISTERS (aka Aya Kakeda and Nina Frenkel) are friends, illustrators, and Hungary-enthusiasts. Learn more about them from Sister Anastasia (who has a thing for mustaches, needless to say).
OUR SISTER ANASTASIA COULD STARE at Shannon Taggart’s series of nun photographs for hours. What do you think? Read Anastasia’s own wannabe nun story and visit her slideshow of vintage nun images.
HER INTENTIONS WERE PURE, Paige swears. Her mother is one of the two best pie makers she has ever known, and Paige just wanted to bake a pie together for this week’s entry in Summer Fest, a cross-blog event she’s part of. Um, not meant to be. Learn more about the perils of pie, and join in the recipe-swapping (though preferably without starting a family feud). Details, details.
I F OUR BABY TSP SISTER ANASTASIA were the stork (as she likes to pretend she is), she’d pick a lot of odd human-and-otherwise creatures to be her little sibling, but a pug? What? “I never thought I’d ever actually want a pug as a baby sister (their faces are always wet and they sniffle a lot),” says Anastasia, “but here’s my exception: Jenny, the Pink Pram-Pushing Pug. This dog is fabulous.” For more fun “If I Were the Stork” posts here’s the place to look.
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L AST SEEN, SISTER MARION WAS HEADING DOWN the highway, screaming her bra size (no small matter, but not the digits on the sticker at left) out of the car window. What’s in a number? Total glee, apparently, or perhaps total insanity. Read her truly madcap tale here if you need a good laugh.
SISTER ANASTASIA’S MOTHER (above right) tried to set up Big Brother T (left) on a blind date, but baby sister’s blog foiled the whole thing. Seriously. This blogging stuff has fierce mojo.
ACCORDING TO SISTER PAIGE, you know you’re a sister when your friendship can survive one of you writing, publicly, about the other. Or can it? Paige reveals the backstory of writing an article about TSP’s very own big sister, Margaret Roach. Was she a Dodo to agree to do it? Find out.
H OW LONG DOES IT TAKE for a NYC subway car full of twins to be noticed by the other riders? Talk about a double-take. Anastasia shares the Improv Everywhere video.
IN THE GALLERIES: Wild duet at Mason-Dixon Knitting.
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.
