by Anastasia on December 21, 2009
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?
by Anastasia on December 10, 2009
OH MY CUTENESS, I’m in love with this ticklish fur ball. And I can authoritatively say that watching those little kitten paws flail in the air is the new best cure for the blues! (See all my “If I Were the Stork” series of imagined adoptive siblings here.)
by Anastasia on November 10, 2009
by Anastasia on October 22, 2009
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?)
by Anastasia on October 12, 2009
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.)
by Anastasia on October 1, 2009
by Anastasia on September 29, 2009
ONE OF MY FAVORITE comediennes of all time, Sarah Haskins, sheds some light on the advertising industry’s obsession with your lady friends, in this rerun episode of “Target Women.” Classic.
by Anastasia on September 19, 2009
THE KHEDE KASRA CAMPAIGN is empowering women in Lebanon by drawing attention to one simple punctuation mark in the Arabic language. How inspiring.
by Anastasia on September 17, 2009
http://www.vimeo.com/5239013
HOLY ADORABLENESS, these kids are cute. According to a New Yorker article that I read earlier this year, kids who had trouble resisting the marshmallow in an identical test to this one that took place decades ago grew up to be much more impulsive (and far less successful by society’s standards) than those who held their ground. Interesting, right? And I almost died when that little guy shoved both marshmallows in his mouth at the end there.
by Anastasia on August 18, 2009
NOW THAT I’M LIVING alone, I’ve been considering adopting a furry friend of the feline variety to keep me company. I wouldn’t be replacing my brother T, but I do need someone to pal around with down here who will love me unconditionally. Too bad Chester the hand-holding cat already has a home. He’s perfect! Side note: I hope you aren’t fed up with the freaky animal videos I’ve been posting around here, because I just can’t get enough.
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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. 
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