TSP’S MARION ROACH SMITH CALLS IT “OUR GREAT EXPERIMENT.” Big sister Margaret calls it “Why not, and can-do.” It’s the release today (on the occasion of her “29th” birthday) of Marion’s fourth book by none other than big sister Margaret-turned-publisher. (Happy birthday, Marion. I think that’s the most unusual gift I ever got you.) :) It’s also a must-have for anyone doing any memoir-style writing–whether in print or on a blog–since that’s what Marion’s been teaching to sold-out classes for 13 years. Get the details (and the book) from our engaging red-headed expert and birthday girl.
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WHEN PARIS PRESS PUBLISHED THE ANTHOLOGY ‘SISTERS’ recently, we were thrilled. What a collection of writings, from de Beauvoir to Ephron, all on our favorite (if sometimes overlooked) topic: sisters and sisterhood. Now TSP sisters Marion Roach Smith and Margaret Roach have been asked by the non-profit press to do readings from the book and from their own work—and you’re invited. It’s all free—as are four copies of the book we’ll give away here the next month. The scoop: [click to continue…]
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MARION’S SHE SAID, SHE SAID BLOG is one year old, and in its short life has taken on everything from the precious to the red hot between her older sister, Margaret, and herself. If you’ve been reading along you’ve learned that they don’t see most things the same way, and that on some topics—their mother, for instance—there is no seeing eye-to-eye. That behavior does not extend to their other parent. Read a love letter of sorts.
ILOVE TO COOK FROM MY GARDEN, but it never occurred to me that any *real* cooks would be stopping by. Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan, cookbook author and proprietor of The Kitchn blog on the giant Apartment Therapy network, and her husband, AT founder Maxwell, were the first bloggers to wish me well online when I left my Martha career to live in my garden in 2008, and I’d said “come by sometime if you’re in the area.” And guess what? The result was a visit filled with great conversation and some of my simple-but-fresh food, including a pizza (my specialty), and now a lovely story and slideshow on Sara Kate’s blog. Do go see my kitchen tour, and tell her in comments that Margaret sent you. (Photo by Sara, from the show.)
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Somebody in this picture will be all sunshine and smiles today.
PLAYING FAVORITES AMONG YOUR SISTERS is something nobody should ever do, but TSP’s judges (profiled below) were faced with 36 amazing entries for the “I Blog With the Sisterhood” contest with Type-A Mom, and were frankly unable to limit ourselves to the three prizes we had promised. We dug into our cookie jars a little deeper, and have delicious news: Besides the top prize, valued at $900, we upgraded the other awards to include not two but four runners-up, and more than doubled the value of each award. (I know, we’ve gone nuts, but everyone’s work really moved us.) And the winners are… [click to continue…]
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B LOGGING CAN BE A SISTERHOOD, and TSP is all about the S word. With that in mind, we sponsored a contest with Kelby Carr and her Type-A Mom network, with the top prize a scholarship to their upcoming blogging conference, where 300 women who blog will enjoy a September weekend of learning and networking in beautiful Asheville, N.C. And the entries—an astonishing 36 of them, each more poignant than the next—are in! Some quotable excerpts, and all the links so you can read for yourself: [click to continue…]
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ACCORDING TO SISTER PAIGE, you know you’re a sister when your friendship can survive one of you writing, publicly, about the other. Or can it? Paige reveals the backstory of writing an article about TSP’s very own big sister, Margaret Roach. Was she a Dodo to agree to do it? Find out.
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IN PART ONE OF THE ASTROLOGICAL chart comparison, or synastry, of Margaret and Marion, two of The Sister Project sisters, we looked at the overview of each individual and how they relate to themselves, their environment and each other as a whole. Do they match (Easter dresses or not) we wanted to know? In Part 2, we take a look at the planets in each sister’s third house, the house that governs siblings, and observe how they relate to themselves and each other as they emphasize their similarities and differences. [click to continue…]
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THE SISTER PROJECT TURNS ONE-HALF this week, and what better time than a birthday (even a half-birthday!) to remind ourselves just who we are (or to eat cake)? Whether you’re new to the sisterhood this week or have been clicking around with our growing family since Day 1, we thought you’d like a tour through some of our sisters’ greatest hits so far: [click to continue…]
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By Sheilaa Hite
SIBLINGS–TWO PEAS IN A POD, RIGHT? Even though they do come from the same pod and they’re nurtured in the same garden, often the differences between them are like night and day. And conversely, the similarities can be so exact that it’s hard to tell where one ends and one begins. As the first article in a series on synastry, the branch of astrology focused on relationships and compatibility, I compared the charts of Margaret and Marion Roach of The Sister Project’s “She Said, She Said” blog…just in time for Marion’s birthday today. [click to continue…]
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G AKKY. JAMMER-JATS. WHO DOESN’T KNOW what those mean? Oh, huh; everybody but me (left) and Marion (right), I guess. Oops! Do you and your siblings or other family have a language of your own? Tell us more.
O OPS, WHO KNEW? MY GARDEN GIFTS of plants, for indoors and out, didn’t always create paradise at Marion’s, but sometimes hints of Little Shop of Horrors. Sorry, Sissy. What eccentricities of any form has your sister handed down to you? Do tell.
S ISTER DIANE GILLELAND, one of our favorite profiles in the TSP Galleries to date and a missionary of all things crafty, invited our own sister Margaret Roach (me!) over for one of her popular podcasts. You can hear their chat at Diane’s Craftypod blog (and if you missed Diane’s show in our Galleries, it’s here). Enjoy.
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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. 
