by Anastasia on August 29, 2010
Hello 25! (Photo by Shaina Machlus)
ONE OF THE REASONS why I’m always geeking out over the blogosphere is because there is such amazing potential for community within it—it’s like a great big amorphous blob of sisterhood just waiting to be claimed and shaped. And in large part, that’s why we started The Sister Project as a blog network. What better way to explore sisterhood than through a medium that inherently fosters community? Lately, I’ve been most excited about an internet project started by 22-year-old blogger Cassie Boorn in which she asks older female bloggers what they would say to their younger, 20-something-year-old selves. Here’s the scoop: [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on July 6, 2010
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?
by Anastasia on December 3, 2009
A YEAR AGO when Margaret, Marion, Paige and I were just setting sail on murky blog waters with the mission to spread the word on sisterhood, we were nervous. Who would read our ramblings? Could we really write about sisters and sisterhood for an indefinite time? But we came together with you, our sweet readers (in our own sort of sisterhood) and have officially been breathing life into The Sister Project for one year! In celebration of this milestone, and as a toast to more blog-birthdays to come, here are a few favorite posts (mine and yours) from the last year to read again or discover anew: [click to continue…]
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 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 July 6, 2009
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…]
by Anastasia on July 2, 2009
http://www.vimeo.com/5365401
OUR FAVORITE PETITE FRENCHIE, Capucine, turned 5 last week and her mama made this tribute video for her. Isn’t it adorable? And I love that she chose the music from Amelie to go along. Bon Anniversaire Capucine! Also: Did you see her brother dressed as a clown in the first photo? How silly.
by Anastasia on April 18, 2009
FOR MUCH OF MY CHILDHOOD, when I was taken to Alice in Videoland and let out of the car in the parking lot, I tore like an escaped caged animal to the children’s section of the video store and grabbed The Parent Trap off the shelf (I had memorized its location). To this day, when I think of Haley Mills and of long-lost-sisterhood, of course, I think of this movie. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on April 3, 2009
photo courtesy of Swindle Magazine.
Today Jane Goodall turns 75, and I’d like to thank her for being such an advocate and a crusader for the lives of our chimpanzee sisters and brothers. Happy Birthday, Jane.
by Anastasia on March 25, 2009
SOME TIDBITS ABOUT ONE of my favorite writers of all time, Flannery O’Connor, on her birthday: [click to continue…]
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