CERTAINLY NOT PICTURES. Nope. As a friend told me a few weeks back, I’ve got a face for radio. And now, you can hear exactly what it looks like. As with everything, there’s a backstory… [click to continue…]
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My Sister Friends
SISTER MARGARET AND I have been lucky to know writer, stylist, crafter and all-around super-duper sister-friend Kari Chapin for several years now, and we couldn’t be more excited to feature her and her new book, The Handmade Marketplace, here on TSP. Read on for the scoop on Kari and her take on sisterhood, and a chance to win a signed copy of her book! [click to continue…]
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THANKS TO MARION, I’m facing a challenge this week: to put together my own personal playlist, a measuring out of my life in coffeehouse tunes, if you will. This isn’t quite as easy as it sounds. Nowadays, I am so easily distracted by children, my own thoughts, and the details of life, that I forget that turning on music will make it all a bit easier. But when I was young, I operated with a constant soundtrack. [click to continue…]
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I WAS SPOILED LAST week: Not one, but two of my dearest BFF sister-friends came visiting, each for two days of sheer girly bliss. My husband was away on a business trip, so the estrogen could flow down like water, or, perhaps more accurately, wine. [click to continue…]
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YOU KNOW YOU’RE a sister when your friendship can survive one of you writing, publicly, about the other. Or can it? It all started innocently enough. I sat down for a coffee with the editor of a regional magazine based here in the hinterlands, talking about what I might write for him, what I was writing for other folks, and inevitably, the conversation turned to The Sister Project, and our amazing oldest sister, lovely Margaret. I should have known what was coming. The editor, like everyone else I meet, wanted to know all about her, her garden, her projects. Now there was a subject! Could I finagle a profile of my friend (and regional celebrity) Margaret? Yikes. [click to continue…]
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REMEMBER MY SUMMER GOALS? Now that summer is more than one-third past (read that bit again, why don’t you, as you weep into your iced coffee) and I’m about to embark on our few short days of family vacation, I thought I should check in with, um, myself, and err, you all, and ‘fess up to what I’ve done, or not, on that list of mine. [click to continue…]
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ARE YOU A SUCCESSFUL list maker? I try to be, I do. I use different tools, on paper and on my computer, to try to keep track of the too-many-to-list obligations and opportunities in my life (not to mention the lives of my husband and kids.) But somehow, I’m not so good at organization, which means I’m not so good at actually accomplishing long-term goals. I can do the stuff that’s right in front of me, but looking beyond the disaster at the end of my nose is, um, a challenge. When it comes to flaws and failings, there’s nothing like a little exhibitionism to keep you honest, so for this summer, I decided to come out of the closet with the things I need and want to get done. [click to continue…]
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A 17th Century Commonplace Book
O NE OF MY SISTER-FRIENDS is going through a rough, tough time. Wisely, I think, she’s remembered to put out the call to her sisters both real (lucky girl, she has two of them) and virtual for support. I was particularly struck by a brilliant request she made a couple of weeks ago. What did she ask for to get her through? You’ll never guess. [click to continue…]
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I SPENT A RECENT WEEKEND at my 25th high school reunion. That’s not as scary as it sounds. I loved high school (I know, hate me, I deserve it) and some of my best friends in the whole world are the women who first knew me then. [click to continue…]
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A S THE SISTERLESS SISTER HERE ON TSP, I’m always on the lookout for tales of non-traditional sisterhood: women who may not share biology, but find kinship all the same. Muriel Barbery’s funny and haunting novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog, a phenomenon in its native France, offers just such a relationship–not to mention a terrific, challenging read. [click to continue…]
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