Anastasia Smith: 24, sisterless and searching.
From the category archives:
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.
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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…]
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I HAVE A SOFT SPOT for this IKEA ad. Maybe because I’m a Cancerian (and therefore a homebody). Or maybe it’s because I’m moving soon and I’ve had lots of nesting urges. Or perhaps it’s because I visited the house where I was born last weekend. (Yes, that must be it.) [click to continue…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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…]
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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?
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I F YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY checked out our astrologer in residence Sheilaa Hite’s March horoscopes, I suggest you have a look. She reminds us that March is a “magical time of year,” during which we witness the lion transforming into a lamb. “We are participants,” she explains, “in one of nature’s oldest and most creative cycle dances—the end of winter and the beginning of spring.” Such a time of transformation (and violent indecision, really—as winter struggles to make up his mind on when to leave town) resonates with me, especially this year. [click to continue…]
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The Sister Project is beginning to write down its rules for sisterhood. Mine follow; Paige and Marion have some, too. We hope you’ll add to the list.
M Y RULES FOR sisterhood are split in two categories, because I see my role as sister to a brother as being quite different from my role as sister to my friends.
Rules for being a sister to a brother:
1. Maintain a list (mental or otherwise) of offenses that happened long ago that you can use in your favor at a later date. [click to continue…]
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M ONDAY NIGHT during Fresh Air, I found myself completely caught up in Terry Gross’s interview with Liza Mundy, a longtime staff writer for The Washington Post and author of the book Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World. I think you will be, too, and here’s why: [click to continue…]
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TOGETHER AT A RECENT WEDDING, T AND ME.
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