H ERE ARE SOME tidbits about my experiences with the sisters called nuns:
1. I used to want to be one. [click to continue…]
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Stockard Channing (center) as Rizzo, with Pink Ladies Marty and Jan
T ODAY, ON STOCKARD CHANNING’S birthday, I suggest you watch the movie Grease, in which Channing plays one of her earliest roles as Rizzo, leader of fictional girl gang The Pink Ladies at Rydell High School. Those Pink Ladies have everything that sister-friends should (or at least that’s what I thought as a child)–musical numbers, jealousy, matching clothes, backstabbing, oh! and a total willingness to change who they are for a man. Read: Do not let your daughters watch Grease twice a week for a year.
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Aunt Bonnie, flanked by brothers (from left) Richie, Peter, Tommy and Neil
T HIS WEEK HAS been all about knitting for the sisters of TSP. We’re all excited about the launch of our gallery show featuring the fine handiwork of the Mason-Dixon knitters. Paige, Marion and I all agree that knitting is the best thing you can do to keep you fingers from freezing in a New England winter. While Margaret hasn’t knit a stitch in her life, she’s been using more than her fair share of knit puns in the last few days (oh, saying things like how we’re all just so closely “knit,” wink wink). So in light of all this stichin’ I’m sharing with you one of my all-time favorite sisters (whom I’ve rarely seen without knitting needles in hand), my lovely and talented Aunt Bonnie. [click to continue…]
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Owen the hippo and Mzee the tortoise, sunbathing together.
T HE ORIGINS OF MY passion for inter-species friendships started with my dear friend Kate, who, several years ago, cut out a magazine clipping of the photo to the left and affixed it to our shared-apartment wall. The hippo’s name is Owen; he survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami only to find that his family went missing. He was taken to an animal sanctuary at the tender age of 4 months, where he befriended a 130-year-old tortoise named Mzee. They have been inseparable ever since. All accounts reported that such a diverse animal family was never heard of. Oh, but I beg to differ. [click to continue…]
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S ISTER PAIGE BROUGHT this viral craze of “25 Random Things About Me” to TSP, when she made her own list last week. And I’m sure you’ve seen the meme on Facebook via numerous “tag you’re it” notes. Partly inspired by a great blog about the daily lives of five sisters, who each wrote 100 things about themselves in separate posts (start here with Lauren‘s and work your way through all 500 facts), and partly inspired by Paige’s great list (in which she admits to her arborist past), I’ve decided to do my own. Don’t worry, I’m not going to require that you make one, too. But perhaps it will get you thinking… [click to continue…]
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The man is ready to pounce! Let's hope I survive his wrath when he sees that I put this photo on the internet.
I N THE PAST WEEK, I have pinched my brother T, wrestled him to the ground, pulled his hair, given him a “wet-willy,” and told him that he will never have a girlfriend again. (I’m coming clean because TSP is the place to do so.) I won’t even begin the laundry list of his offenses against me, but I’m sure you get the picture. Since my father, T’s former roommate, joined the Peace Corps last fall, at the sprightly young age of 61, T has been spending an increasing amount of time here at my mother’s house (the house where we grew up). [click to continue…]
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T ODAY VANESSA REDGRAVE, an empress of the screen (and one of my favorite women), turns 72. I’m sure Ms. Redgrave knows a thing or two about sisterhood: She is a sister to actress Lynn Redgrave and actor Corin Redgrave, and the mother of two daughters and a son (Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson, and Carlo Negro). In addition to her work as a mother and actress, she has been a crusader for human rights throughout the past five decades. Above is a clip from her heartbreaking role in the 2000 TV movie If These Walls Could Talk 2. Some of my other favorite Redgrave characters are Isadora Duncan in Isadora, and transsexual Renee Richards in Second Serve (I could go on, but I’ll stop there).
And what roles of Vanessa Redgrave do you love?
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L AST WEEK, I HAD the pleasure of seeing I’ve Loved You so Long at the movie theater. It’s quite the story of the ties that bind sisters for life, whether they realize it or not. Above is just a taste of the film; be sure to put this one in your Netflix queue. TSP’s Paige saw this movie months ago (yes, I am behind the viewing curve for sure), and wrote a lovely post about it. If you’re into movies, keep an eye on Paige’s blog–she’s our cinema junkie in residence.
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Princess Margaret (left) with her sister, Queen Elizabeth, at a theater performance
F LIP THROUGH THIS month’s issue of Vanity Fair to find a riveting excerpt of Princess Margaret’s biography as told by Anne de Courcy, chronicling the 1970 marriage (and later divorce) of Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon. Now, if you’re a young American with little interest (until now) in the blood of the British Monarchy, perhaps you’ve never heard glamorous tales of Princess Margaret (I certainly hadn’t). But with the aid of Wikipedia’s British Monarchs Family Tree, I was able to sort out the various royal highness-es in the article, and dive in. [click to continue…]
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WE’VE COME A LONG way, sisters. Let’s hope this double-standard sexism is as vintage as those hair-dos. (blech!). It reminds me of a not-so-vintage book written by feminist author Peggy Orenstein called Schoolgirls–a great read for women everywhere.
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