Anastasia Smith: 24, sisterless and searching.
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zzzzzzzzz...on the couch before we left and then on the shores of the river.
HOW LUCKY AM I to be able spend some quality time with my brother T on his birthday? It’s been way too long since we hung out. (Six months!) To celebrate his 29th year, we brought a picnic lunch to the Green River. In true T style, however, all he wanted to do was nap. What the birthday boy wants, the birthday boy gets, right?
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WE’RE BIG FANS of Christmas carols in my family. “Oh Holy Night,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “The 12 Days of Christmas,” you name it, we’ve been singing it this week. And so last night between verses of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” my mom asked me if I remembered my very first favorite Christmas song. I was stumped at first. And then I remembered “Children Go Where I Send Thee,” and all the many Christmases T and I spent clapping and dancing along (with arguably as much spirit as that little tyke on the right) to the rhythm of that song came back to me. What about you? What was your childhood favorite carol? Current favorite?
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That's a beer bump I'm sporting, not a baby bump!
HOORAY! HALLOWEEN IS JUST around the corner, and we’re celebrating by sharing our favorite sisterly costumes. I must confess that my brother and I never dressed in a joint costume, and I’m pretty sure he hated trick-or-treating with me. I couldn’t keep up with his competitive candy-gathering, and my mermaid/angel/pumpkin costumes really cramped his Black Spiderman/ninja/vampire style. So wearing matching costumes was definitely out of the question. In college, my roommate Elizabeth and I dressed as a hillbilly couple on vacation (pictured above); it was my favorite couple costume of all time! Show us your sisterly (or sister-friend, in my case) outfits of Halloweens past and we’ll put the photos together in a slideshow. Send pictures to thesisterproject [at] gmail [dot] com.
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AS I MENTIONED EARLIER this week, I recently spent some time hanging out with my dad while he was visiting North Carolina. We had a great visit that was punctuated by headlocks, non sequiturs, and spontaneous drowsiness. And it really got me thinking how many of you TSP fans ask, “where does your Brother T get his unstoppable goofy streak?” Well let me tell you, dear readers, look no farther than the man in the reflective rainbow sunglasses for that answer.
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SINCE MY DEAR BROTHER has been working like a horse, staying overtime at his job and doing construction on his house, I haven’t been able to talk to him in weeks! Until a few days ago, when we finally had a moment to catch up with each other… [click to continue…]
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WHY IS IT THAT BROTHERS are not very good on the phone? (Need I remind you of this.) Anyway, all these long-distance calls are making me miss my big bro.
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A FEW WEEKS AGO, I went with T Money to the scrap metal yard in North Adams, Massachusetts. I drove the enormous Chevy truck filled with copper pipes. (Huzzah!) And my brother T said some poetic words about beauty, destruction and trash (although they’re escaping me now). It was the best outing we took all summer. Plus, we made big money. Really big money. All the day’s beauty and trash can be found here on flickr.
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And our mother used to say: "No toilet talk at the table!"
WE INTERRUPT OUR REGULARLY scheduled blog entries to bring you this charming moment with my brother, T. [click to continue…]
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T and his mama in 2008.
NOW THAT I’VE BEEN writing for The Sister Project for the better part of a year, some funny interactions have emerged in my family–mostly around my brother, T. There’s been the usual “you better not post that photo of my sunburned butt on the internet” banter from the beginning. But most recently, my mom did the silliest thing: [click to continue…]
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YES, TODAY MARKS THE anniversary of my brother’s birth. He has been gracing the world with his magnanimous presence for 28 years now, and to celebrate this exciting day I thought I’d share with you three things that you may not know about the man who we sometimes call “T:” [click to continue…]
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MY BIG BROTHER (AND OUR SILLY HATS).
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.