WHO CROSSED YOUR PATH FIRST on New Year’s Day? If it was a redhead, you may need to fasten your seat belt for a bumpy 2010, since at least one beginning-of-the-year tradition holds that the person first crossing your threshold in the new year decides the luck you’ll have for the next 365 days. Read why here.
From the category archives:
Sibling Science
From an Australian Ralph Lauren store, via photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com
IF IT ISN’T HORRIBLE ENOUGH that some women are led to starve themselves into dangerous, sometimes deadly, sizes, others willingly do it for them, manipulating print ads to make us appear so emaciated that you would think nothing good could come of it. But something has. British Liberal Democrats are finally calling for a ban of digitally altered advertisements, The New York Times reports, requesting a prohibition of dastardly retouched photos, such as Ralph Lauren ads that depict unrealistic images. [click to continue…]
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ONE OF OUR TSP SISTERS, redheaded Marion, is the subject of an interview on Raising Redheads dot com this week. Here at TSP we’ve gathered our own Sisterhood of Redheads, where we’re doling out what we know about the breed. Got something red-hot to add?
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SISTERS ARE A GREAT TOPIC, and it’s wonderful to have that confirmed by the arrival of Deborah Tannen’s new book, You Were Always Mom’s Favorite!, on the The New York Times bestseller list just this week. Read more from TSP’s Marion.
ANASTASIA’S WATCHING VIMEO CLIPS INSTEAD OF writing papers at grad school, but we are grateful for her occasional procrastination. The latest offspring of it: a too-delicious video of kids being offered marshmallows, and what their ability (or not) to resist them says about their character. Watch the flick.
I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN, is the popular Beatles’ lyric, and while TSP Sister Marion loves the song, as well as its distinctly male point of view, it’s not hers. Or yours, probably, since women are oh-so-very-lunar. Find out more from Marion about this month’s moon.
Kelly Rae Roberts, Artist, Author, Possibilitarian.
KELLY RAE ROBERTS is an author, blogger, artist and a prolific maker and teacher of extraordinary things. She also describes herself as a “possibilitarian,” a word we’d, frankly, like to see used more often. We’ve long followed her from afar, moved by her extraordinary spark, her passion, her sisterhood of creativity, but her latest endeavor really deserves a front-page mention. [click to continue…]
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IKNEW RIGHT AWAY I’D FEEL A KINSHIP with Jennifer Rae Atkins when I found her blog, The Daily Mammal, and saw in the faces of the animals she draws that she feels a kinship with all of nature, a siblinghood that crosses species boundaries. In that “takes one to know one” way, Jennifer seemed familiar, because each of her animals was depicted with its soul shining through (not just its nose and eyes and fur). Come meet this very special sister, and her beloved kin, human and otherwise.
IN 1983, MARION PUBLISHED a piece in The New York Times Magazine that, impossible as it now may seem, introduced Alzheimer’s disease to millions of people who didn’t know what it was. Tonight, HBO begins a three-night series, about a disease that now needs no introduction. What a difference 26 years makes. Or does it? In today’s Op-Ed in The Los Angeles Times, Marion writes about just that. Learn more.
ONLY SISTER MARION could find the key to the genetic code in her mother-in-law’s hand-me-down recipe for Spam Chop Suey. No kidding: Read about it.
ANASTASIA RECENTLY CAME ACROSS German-born artist Grete Stern’s vintage photomontages of the dreams of women, which got her thinking about our innate, otherworldly connections to one another. A must-see slideshow.
A NEW STUDY FROM ENGLAND told us something we already knew: That having a sister makes people happy (and brothers, well…not so). Big surprise: Families with sisters are more willing to discuss feelings, and did better after crises such as marital break-ups, says a study of 571 subjects from 17 to 25 years old interviewed by the British Psychological Society, to be presented today in Brighton, according to the BBC.
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T HE RECENT TWIN-REDHEAD MYSTERY here on TSP got Marion Roach Smith (a redhead herself) remembering her start down the genealogy trail, searching for her roots. Find out where it led.
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. 
