Paige Smith Orloff invents sisterhood from scratch.
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BRRR. BLECCH. IT’S FEBRUARY. In college, this meant something called “Feb Club,” an organized party every single night of the year’s bleakest, longest-feeling month. In real life, this means a search for escape–virtual, if not real. [click to continue…]
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image from the new thankyougourmet.com
YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW I FEEL about the end of Gourmet. But let me be clear: Unlike many mainstream media outlets that covered this story, I don’t blame food bloggers. I love food blogs, and what I glean from their shiny digital pages is totally different than what I sought in Gourmet’s glossy ones. So with my favorite food mag now history, I find myself seeking comfort from fellow foodies and passionate cooks. If you, too, need some emotional sustenance during these dark days, be sure to check out these sites, which are full of the vibrant joy of cooking well for yourself and others. [click to continue…]
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This post is part of TSP’s network-wide “Sisters I’ve Met Along the Way” celebration, marking 9 months of blogging together, and toasting the women (and men) we’ve met.
WHEN WE STARTED The Sister Project, I was excited, but not exactly dancing. I worried about my role: I have no sisters. True, I parent a sister, and my mother lives with me (a strange sort, maybe, but a sort of sisterhood nonetheless), and I am lucky to have collected friends who feel to me like sisters, but was it enough? Did I have anything to say on this shapeshifting, all-important subject of the sisterly bond? As it turned out, it didn’t really matter, because I kept finding women who were able to say it for me. And their lessons, post by post, comment by comment, profile by profile, have taught me more about that crazy question of ours of “What means sisterhood?” than I could ever have imagined, and left me dancing (sometimes figuratively, sometimes for real) with joy. Have you met these remarkable women? Read on. [click to continue…]
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Joe Forte's artwork just about sums me up.
A FEW DAYS BACK, my (internet/have never met her in person, yet feel like she’s a part of my dysfunctional family) friend, lovely Marilyn of Simmer Till Done, asked me to chime in with a guest post on her blog. The assignment was simple: food & memory. I pinged her back (this whole convo, of course, was over Twitter) and said I’d LOVE to be a part of her blog (it rocks) but that my initial, stream-of-consciousness response to the assignment was pretty dark. “I’m cool with dark,” was her reply (or something like that) and so I was off to the memory races. [click to continue…]
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Our virtual sister Marilyn, of SimmerTillDone
AS YOU KNOW, if you’ve been following along with our recent contest here at TSP, we’re big believers in blogging as a kind of digital sisterhood. The connections we make through bits and bytes bring us laughter, solace and that beautiful feeling that we’re not alone in our struggles, our tastes, our dark or ridiculous secrets. I’ve been lucky to find a kindred (foodie, unruly haired) spirit in Marilyn Naron of SimmerTillDone, a fabulous food blog, that like all my favorite food blogs is as much about the cook as the cooking. Here’s how Marilyn’s and my sisterhood evolved (with a big twist this last week): [click to continue…]
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I HAVE A LITTLE problem. I love cookbooks, and cooking magazines. The piles mount; something has to give, my husband says. Do I really need all this paper in order to cook? Well, no, I don’t, I guess, but cookbooks make me feel at home, bring me solace, and inspire me. Thankfully, the sisterhood and brotherhood of passionate cooks I’ve met the last three years in the food blogosphere provide a glimmer of light at the end of this paper tunnel. Meet my most recent culinary muses: [click to continue…]
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MY BUDDING ARTISTS? How the kids see me.
First time here? Here's the idea: The Sister Project 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 on our homepage 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.
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.
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.
