Marion Roach Smith’s alternate sisterly reality, with Margaret Roach.
A S YOU KEEP pointing out in your comments, sisters are slices of a whole tale, the whole tale being the story of a family. Points of view can be very pointed, of course, which is why sisters can sometimes be both irksome and essential at the very same time. After all, they know the other side of our stories, the coin flipped over. [click to continue…]
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WHEN I SAY potato, you know what you say, right? Hmmm. Maybe you don’t.
At “She Said/She Said” we explore that old, “You say potato, and I say poe-tah-toe” thing that sisters do—that not quite seeing the same experience in the very same way.
The idea of this blog came from a class I teach in memoir. Called Writing What You Know, the once-a-week course has run for 10 years, to date attracting 500 students, and recently the subject of an article in the Albany Times Union. Pretty much every single week someone has related what they felt when after reading a heartfelt personal essay to a family member, that family member responded, “That’s not what happened,” or some version on that theme. Just this week a man introduced himself, saying, “My sister says I write stories and that she tells the truth.” [click to continue…]
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MARION LOVES WATER, Margaret (left) earth.
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.