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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In 1960, older Margaret's on the light end of the seesaw at age 6.
IF A POUND IS GAINED in the forest, and no one is there to see it, is it still a pound? This is the exact kind of question I’ve pelted my poor sister with over the years that I’ve seen my weight go up and hers go down; her side of the seesaw is ever higher up in the air. And trust me, there were more annoying exchanges, like these: [click to continue…]
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HEADING BACK TO THE BLEACHERS, as our children are heading back to school, reminds me that last year we had some issues. But as it does each year, September gives all of us a brand clean slate on which to write. Our kids have changed over the summer: They’ve gotten taller, had braces put on (or taken off), have moved up to JV or Varsity. And us? Well, hope as our kids might, we haven’t changed all that much. [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 the women (and men) we’ve met.
I NEVER THOUGHT when I first wrote about bra-shopping months ago that it would prove the start of such a supportive (sorry!) new sisterhood. This song is my attempt to start to thank some of those I’ve met as a result.
To be sung to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas. Oh, yeah. [click to continue…]
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NOT ASKING YOUR SISTER is dumb. I should know. I learned that lesson when our daughter was 5, and told me that she wanted to be a boy. Actually, it was more specific than that. She told me she wanted a penis.
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Me, on the swim team, before I knew the 15 Rules.
WHY WOULD I BE ASKED TO SPEAK at a school commencement, my daughter wanted to know? I am no one’s idea of a traditional role model. But I’ve been able to chart my life to do what I love, so my speech turned out to be a list of rules to help the girls do just that. 15 Rules for Living, from overseas travel to a certain pair of red shoes: [click to continue…]
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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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First time here? Here's the idea: 
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. 
As the suffix of its name suggests, 
