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:
Genetics & Medicine
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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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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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.
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.
S ISTERS AGE DIFFERENTLY. Or so maintains a new study from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, who might know a thing or two about this topic, since they recently studied the faces of 186 pairs of identical twins and reached some fairly astonishing conclusions. [click to continue…]
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By Marion Roach Smith
I LOVE SECOND CHANCES. And we get one every year with the Chinese New Year. So in case you didn’t quite make the deadline to clean up your act, lose (or gain) some weight, or find a way to be a better sister to your sister by that now-past January 1 deadline, here’s another shot. [click to continue…]
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THE TOPIC OF TRANSPLANTS between twins, this one resulting in a baby, is complex and compelling, yes, but Marion Roach Smith finds herself wondering about how the sisters grappled with it all behind the scenes.
ANGELA LANSBURY STARS in her most important role ever, says Marion Roach Smith: the role of a sister fighting her sister’s disease. Learn more.
G UESS THE AL PACINO FILM would have been a little kinkier if titled ‘Scent of a Sister,’ but that aside….Now science tells us it’s unmistakable: Sisters can sniff out their sisters with uncanny accuracy. Learn what a sister’s nose knows.
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. 
