By Paige Smith Orloff
FORMER ACTRESS, CURRENT author Meg Tilly (famous since the early 80s – Big Chill, anyone?) is now a blogger. Who’s not, right? OK, but Meg’s blog world includes her own musings, a joint blog with daughter Emily Zinnemann, and Emily’s own shared blog with her non-friend, Sheera. My head is spinning a bit from the meta of it all, but these women can write, and their views of all manner of sisterly relations are fascinating… [click to continue…]
By Marion Roach Smith
WHEN SISTERS HELP one another we all benefit. This was the feeling I had recently while cruising around, looking for some book promotion advice. I stumbled upon some, and came away with that unique and fabulous feeling I only get when I witness one woman helping out another, and have only to keep the good moving along to help some more. You know that feeling?
By Sheilaa Hite
THIS MONTH MARKS the half-way point in the year. It’s a time of contemplation and assessment. It’s also a time of celebrations and vacations. We can contemplate more deeply and assess more accurately if we go about it lightly. Giving yourself permission to play is the highest and best use of your energy right now. Instead of your having to struggle with life’s truths, things will come more easily if you just allow yourself to enjoy the current moment and season. The sign-by-sign forecasts follow: [click to continue…]
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YES, We KNOW: technically, it is not summer. But we’ve got forecasts in the 80s, and darn it, it’s about to be Memorial Day weekend. For culinary inspiration, look no further than our own archives of amazing summer recipes. Some vintage, some our own concoctions, there’s plenty to tempt sisterly palates from simple to soignée…
By Paige Smith Orloff
MAY IS THE month where my garden comes alive, and one of the first things I start cooking is rhubarb. So what better time to take a look back, through our treasured cache of Ladies’ Auxiliary cookbooks, to see how our fore-sisters treated this ruby red delight? Have a look.
By Marion Roach Smith
I WAS BORN in the Little Neck Branch of the New York Public library system. Right next to the card catalogue. That’s the way I remember it, and I’m sticking to that story no matter what, as well as to the version that I also came of age there, and engaged in all manners of important transitions in or because of the library. And do you doubt me? Read on.
YOU MAY remember (back in the infant days of The Sister Project) a little series called “Sister Jams (Not Jellies),” in which our little sister Anastasia highlighted all kinds of sibling bands and otherwise sisterly songs. Well she’s rounding-up some of the old standards from the archives, plus breathing some new life into the old series with this addition. Listen in.
PAIGE’S KIDS HAVE fewer than four weeks left of school. That means summer, and summer means lots of goodness: balmy weather, barbecue, and best of all, beach reading. She’s already starting to pack, or at least pick, her summer reading list, and it’s full of sisterly reads, and some surprises. Come read along.
PAIGE BLAMES THE royal wedding. Though she says she was far from obsessed, let’s face it, the news of Kate and Wills was inescapable. Is that why her daughter started bringing home English history tomes from the school library? Read on.
By Anastasia Smith
HAIR. OH, HAIR. MAYBE IT was the Steel Magnolias post I did a few weeks ago that brought this age-old sisterhood subject back to mind. Here’s a fresh take.
By Anastasia Smith
I AM ENDLESSLY FASCINATED by trans-cultural feminism. This is in part because being reminded of the tenuousness of my convictions always makes me feel alive. (A bit dramatic, I know.) So naturally, the intersection of Western media, Muslim women, and feminism is a place of exhilaration for me. Read on.
WHO ARE YOUR all-time favorite women writers? This is the question on deck. While Marion is handling all things nonfiction, Anastasia wants to hear your picks for favorite female poetesses and fictioneers, and she’s starting off her list with an unexpected name. (Hint: she’s pictured to the left.) Read the full story.
By Marion Roach Smith
THREE SHORT WOMEN with three tall tales equals three extraordinary memoirs. And now, they’ve taken their show on the road. Come with me as I introduce you to the act that is one of the very best educations you can get in writing what you know. Read on.
IN THE GALLERIES: Photos by ALLISON MICHAEL ORENSTEIN.
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: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
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. 
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.
