Marion Roach Smith’s alternate sisterly reality, with Margaret Roach.
SCHOOL IS BACK. After a long summer of not teaching, I am back where I love to be, three weeks into a new class on memoir. And it’s a great class: Twenty-one eager writers, all with their own tales, all willing to do the work to get the pieces on the page. And each week I ask the same question: [click to continue…]
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THE TRUTH ISN’T ALWAYS FUNNY. If you want a funny list, we’ve got it. But not here. This time I’m taking on the single, galvanizing not-funny aspect of the sisterhood. And just what is that? Time. How we manage time.
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SIX POUNDS DOWN. Blood pressure lowest of my adult life. Decaffeinated. Old jeans sitting on my hips. Dress that didn’t fit does. Drinking green tea. Sleeping through the night. Only one question remains: Who the hell is this woman?
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Lisa Ling; image from Wikipedia
SISTERS IN THE NEWS are not all that common, we find. We look. We love being on the receiving end of your good generosity for any such news items, as one of you just did. In from Elizabeth at learningtobake, came this, about a book we bet all of us will read when it comes out. Jointly offered by Lisa Ling, a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show, and her sister, Laura Ling, one of the women journalists captured by the North Koreans in March and recently released, the proposal currently being shopped around is said to examine “the meaning of sisterhood and journalistic ideals.” Here’s the full story. We’re excited, and wish the Ling sisters all the very best, as well as our sincere offer that if they need any help, they consult our memoir tips here to keep them typing with the rest of us sisters.
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WRITER’S BLOCK? NONSENSE. There is no such thing. Despite the fact that writing books are chock full of time-wasting exercises with all manners and ways to get you to emerge from that supposed thing, I say nonsense to all of it since there is no such thing. Don’t believe me? Well, come along with the sisterhood of writing and we’ll change your mind. [click to continue…]
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I THOUGHT THIS WAS ME. So did Margaret. Despite the fact that it’s a boy, it looks exactly as I did at the age that I began my happy days at P.S. 94 in Little Neck, Queens. And the attitude. Yup. Same. I actually stopped and stared at it, wondering how that could be. Has this happened to you on the Internet, running across something deeply, weirdly familiar? It just happened to me.
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I F WE’RE TALKING HEAVY MACHINERY, Marion, make mine a tractor. You know I am all about terra firma, and will be happy to leave this life without ever stepping into another boat (even if it does have a cool little outboard). This is my first photo, in response to Marion’s throwdown about favorite things, whether your sister knows about them, or shares them–or not. If you have a photo to share, email it to us with a brief caption at thesisterproject at gmail dot com (you know how to format that), and we’ll make a slideshow. Yes? Say yes. Marion asked us to, and you don’t want to argue with a red-headed baby sister; trust me on that.
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PASSOVER IS HERE, and we look forward to our yearly Seder, blended as we will be into another family’s gracious celebration. It’s easier these days since there are only three of us to accommodate at their Seder table. It wasn’t always like this. And when it wasn’t, I got my first best dose of just how accommodating a sister can be. [click to continue…]
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THE OLD DAYS: In Grandma's garden.
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.
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