SISTERS ARE GOOD. More to the point, it has now been reaffirmed that sisters are good for you. Yup, you read it here first, and we’ve got another study to prove it. Want some sister stats to brighten up your day?
From the category archives:
Psychology & Behavior
By Anastasia Smith
OY, I’VE GOT IT bad. As I round the quarter-century bend in my life, some primordial alarm clock within me is screaming. (Anyone else?) Here are the details of my current “issue.”
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.
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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PAIGE SMITH ORLOFF wonders out loud. Listen in.
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. 
