by Anastasia on January 5, 2010
WHAT IS IT ABOUT BRAIDS and sisterhood that makes them such divine companions? The fantastic how-to book Beautiful Braids was a longtime staple in my childhood, but somehow I never really mastered the tricky task of braiding my own hair in the mirror. (When I’m home sometimes my mom still does it!) Maybe the secret of sisters with fabulous braids is that they do it for each other? After getting a tip on the braid-heavy photo above from Pam at Retro Renovation, I started thinking about my favorite plaited ladies from The Sister Project. Here’s what I found: [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on December 21, 2009
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…]
by Anastasia on August 12, 2009
AREN’T WEBSITES THAT END in “project” and are devoted to building community awesome? (You better say “yes!”) Well, I think so. Accordingly, I’ve been loving This is Home Project–a site filled with visual representations of the many ways we identify home. It’s quite simple, really. Complete the sentence “Home is _____.” and send it along to the project. A winning phrase will be selected by readers and made into post cards. I’m ruminating on my entry, but it’s hard to feel inspired when my current home looks like it had a violent run-in with an IKEA truck. How would you fill in the blank?
by Anastasia on July 29, 2009
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OKAY, SISTERS, IT’S TIME FOR ME to confess something: I am secretly terrified about my impending relocation to North Carolina! (Did you hear? I’m about to start graduate school.) There’s so much to do! And so much to leave! The video above (which I found thanks to the lovely Capucha) pretty much sums it all up. Thank goodness I watched it the whole way through, because how could I forget: There’s also so much to discover. Whew.
by Anastasia on July 19, 2009
TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO today I was caught by my midwife, Anastasia. (We’re together on the left.) She took the ferry from Burlington, Vermont to my parents’ farmhouse in the Adirondacks when no one else would, because 24 years ago home births were illegal in New York State. So to celebrate my midwife and my namesake on the anniversary of our heartfelt meeting, I put together a little slideshow of newborns and their women who helped bring them into the world. It’s a sisterhood I’m so grateful to be a part of! [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on June 17, 2009
by Anastasia on April 28, 2009
Below this photo Katherine writes, "Summertime, you're mine"
WHEN I FOUND KATHERINE SQUIER’S photostream on flickr (thanks to boooooom! who featured her work on their homepage), I spent hours clicking through the nine or so pages of eerily beautiful photos. And even when I was too sleepy to prop myself up in front of my computer, I felt so reluctant to leave her world and go to sleep. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on April 13, 2009
I RECENTLY CAME ACROSS a slideshow on youtube of artist Grete Stern’s work in photomontage depictions of women’s dreams, and I was quite moved. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on March 24, 2009
WHEN I CAME ACROSS The Belly Project a few months ago, I was just awestruck by the concept behind the blog. Each post consists of a photo of an anonymous woman’s belly; the headline reads her age and her pregnancy histories, sometimes including miscarriages and abortions. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on March 18, 2009
A FEW WEEKS AGO, I posted a gallery of nun photos along with an invitation for readers to share their favorite sister stories (sisters as in nuns, that is). The response was delightful, with nun tales of all sorts. I recommend you revisit the post–now with new photos added–and partake in this ongoing discussion on sisters in and out of the habit. Why don’t you start here?
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, 
