Anastasia Smith: 24, sisterless and searching.
From the category archives:
I WAS SO TOUCHED WHEN Katie Schwartz of Dear Thyroid fame asked me to participate in blogging community effort to raise awareness for thyroid diseases and cancers. When it comes to blues and truths of the ol’ butterfly gland, I’ve got plenty. So here goes… [click to continue…]
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A YEAR AGO when Margaret, Marion, Paige and I were just setting sail on murky blog waters with the mission to spread the word on sisterhood, we were nervous. Who would read our ramblings? Could we really write about sisters and sisterhood for an indefinite time? But we came together with you, our sweet readers (in our own sort of sisterhood) and have officially been breathing life into The Sister Project for one year! In celebration of this milestone, and as a toast to more blog-birthdays to come, here are a few favorite posts (mine and yours) from the last year to read again or discover anew: [click to continue…]
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I WAS TOUCHED to misty-eyes by a recent post over at the food blog Tea & Cookies. Tea’s mom is moving away from her family’s beloved Bay Area home, and so Tea took some time to blog about her final goodbye to the house. She bid farewell to the jasmine that her mother planted outside of her childhood bedroom window, stole some longing gazes at the kitchen stove, and picked the last figs from their fig tree. But sweetest of all, she wrote the future inhabitant of her bedroom, a little girl, a lovely note (pictured above), and hid it in the bedroom closet for the girl to find when she’s old enough to read. Isn’t that wonderful? What a lucky girl to have some secret history hidden away in her room.
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Scream off: Oprah vs. Susie Greene
NO ONE HAS EVER ASKED me for procrastination tips (which is surprising, considering how hiding from looming work is something Cancerians are famous for). But if anyone is interested in mastering the fine art of procrastination, here’s my first tip: jezebel.com. They have strange videos, celebrity news, nonsense and an array stories on women’s issues posted daily. This week, the editors are paying video montage tribute to two of television’s favorite women as they gracefully exit off-screen. Yes, I’m talking about Oprah and Susie Greene. Who would have known these two would have so much in common? Turns out they both can scream (one with significantly more profanity, however). Watch them here and report: who do you think wins for greatest lung capacity?
(Susie photo via Vanity Fair)
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I‘M PRETTY SURE my lease agreement doesn’t include a clause on how baby farm animals are more than welcome. Darn. But thanks to photographer Sharon Montrose, I can now invite these darling little animals into my home. Lamb or baby porcupine? I can’t decide…
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The Werewolf Attorney (of '30 Rock'), The Bearded Lady, and The Mall-Walker
THINGS ARE GETTING a little grizzly down here in North Carolina. I’ve got assignments coming out my ears, and my closet seems to have projectile vomited all my clothes into the many corners of my apartment. So please forgive me for the lack of blogging presence while I gather myself. But luckily I did get to take a break on Halloween last weekend, for which I dressed up in one of Erin Dollar’s fantastic homemade beards! Remember this post on Erin from way-back-when? Well, I’m now officially in the sisterhood of bearded ladies. Hooray!
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IN CELEBRATION OF CATHERINE Deneuve’s birthday (she happens to be one of my all-time favorite French leading ladies), today I’m renting Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, in which Deneuve stars alongside her sister, Françoise Dorléac. The sisters play on screen, musically inclined twins living in the seaside town of Rochefort. Tragically, Françoise was killed in a car accident shortly after the film had finished shooting in 1967, and it always gives me chills seeing Catherine perform with her. Bon Anniversaire Catherine, your strength and talent are ever-inspiring. (More movies all about sisters here. What are you favorites?)
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THE MUSTACHE SISTERS (aka Aya Kakeda and Nina Frenkel) are friends, illustrators, and Hungary-enthusiasts. They found each other in NYC and decided to pool their talents/passions and make a large wearable mustache costume to compete in the Mustache Contest sponsored by the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York. “To us, ‘Mustache Sisters’ is a celebration of collaborative creativity, frienship and fun,” Aya and Nina say. Oooh, I love it! (And how about those peep-toed shoes?)
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LAST WEEK MY DAD WAS visiting me in North Carolina (hence my brief hiatus from posting here), and we spent a great afternoon at the movies seeing Whip It. My dad is over 60 and currently lives on an island in the middle of the Pacific, so he thought the movie was hokey and strange (although he did enjoy the surround sound), but I was smitten. I may even start roller skating. Alia Shawkat (of Arrested Development fame) and Ellen Page play besties in the movie, and as it turns out they’re great friends in real life! I love this interview with them (watch the full video here). I wish we could all hang out and talk sisterhood, don’t you? (Plus: for a whole heap of movies all about sisters, check out our homemade directory.)
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I COULD STARE AT Shannon Taggart’s series of nun photographs for hours. What do you think?
via booooooom!
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TOGETHER AT A RECENT WEDDING, T AND 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.