SO ABOUT A MONTH ago, when our sister Anastasia had first gotten home for semester break, she tweeted about a very sisterly moment between her mother and herself, in which they gorged themselves on pistachios and talked about Alec Baldwin’s undying handsomeness. Lo and behold, it led to free pistachios and other joys. Get the story.
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SPEAKING OF BEAUTIFUL braids, have you seen (or participated in) the Flickr pool Braid Wednesday? It features the beautiful braids of hundreds of Flickr users–kind of like a mini braid sisterhood! Our Sister Anastasia is a regular lurker; here’s why.
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 TSP Sister Anastasia’s childhood, but somehow she never really mastered the tricky task of braiding her own hair in the mirror. (When she’s home sometimes her 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, Anastasia started thinking about her favorite plaited ladies from The Sister Project. Here’s what she found:
SISTER ANASTASIA WAS TOUCHED to misty-eyes, she says, by a recent post over at the food blog Tea & Cookies, where a tender gesture was extended toward a sister-to-be. Read what happened.
NO ONE HAS EVER ASKED TSP’S ANASTASIA for procrastination tips (which is surprising, considering how hiding from looming work is something Cancerians are famous for). But she has a doozie that involves Jezebel, Oprah and Susie Greene. Something you wish to avoid (like vacuuming before the company arrives)? Here’s what to do instead.
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OUR FAVORITE CANADIAN identical twins, Tegan and Sara, have a new album. I haven’t listened to it all, but I like what I’ve heard. Above is the video for their new single, Hell. Things I like about it: origami, striped shirts, old TVs, Kitty cutouts, and–of course–the sisterly vibe oozing out of those motel rooms. Interested in more sister music? Check out these past posts on sibling bands and sisterly songs. We also have a mini-directory here. Enjoy!
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THE MUSTACHE SISTERS (aka Aya Kakeda and Nina Frenkel) are friends, illustrators, and Hungary-enthusiasts. Learn more about them from Sister Anastasia (who has a thing for mustaches, needless to say).
OUR SISTER ANASTASIA COULD STARE at Shannon Taggart’s series of nun photographs for hours. What do you think? Read Anastasia’s own wannabe nun story and visit her slideshow of vintage nun images.
ONE OF SISTER ANASTASIA’S 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.
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SINCE LEAVING FOR GRAD SCHOOL, Sister Anastasia hasn’t been able to connect much with Big Brother T…until the other day, finally. Guess how it went? (Read: This is a brother we are talking about.) The sorry outcome is here.
WHILE HER TSP PARTNERS in crime, Paige and Marion, are busy working on getting healthy this week–what with tackling BMI myths and detoxing out the wazoo–Anastasia’s at grad school. Um, know what that means, diet-wise? Hint: It’s not pretty.
ANASTASIA’S WATCHING VIMEO CLIPS INSTEAD OF writing papers at grad school, but we are grateful for her occasional procrastination. The latest offspring of it: a too-delicious video of kids being offered marshmallows, and what their ability (or not) to resist them says about their character. Watch the flick.
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, THAT IS. She’s just one week deep in graduate school, and already has manuscripts up to her knees. While she gets her bearings and turns out some new prose, have a look at some of her past fiction and memoir.
First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: 
As the suffix of its name suggests, 
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. 
