By Paige Smith Orloff
RIVALRY? HA! THAT’S teeny, tiny potatoes. My resident little sister and big brother–my beautiful kids–have tabled competition, in favor of all out war. It’s looking like Afghanistan in my house: no end in sight. How do you cope?
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ON THE POSITIVE side: No one threw up. But what happens when you pack two not-so-copacetic siblings into the car for a four-hour ride? In Sister Paige’s family: headphones, iPods, and a whole lot of discussion of just what makes boys so gross, anyway. The lowdown from the road.
PAIGE’S SON’S DAYS OF BELIEVING in the unbelievable are growing shorter, though he plays along with Santa Claus and such for the sake of his little sister. But Mom’s feeling pretty wistful about the end of her boy’s belief in magic, so she tried for one last gasp of wonder with a Great Pumpkin Party. Join them.
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.
WHEN IN DOUBT, DESSERT. It might be Sister Marion’s new motto. It would make a good T-shirt, wouldn’t it? Hmmm. Anyway, it certainly is a motto she’s using for her friend John, of Teaching John to Cook, the subject of an occasional series here on TSP on how to sister a guy-pal into the kitchen. Marion’s sweet latest installment is here.
EVERY SO OFTEN Anastasia has a phone conversation with her older brother T that makes her wonder if she was abducted by an alien family in her sleep. This time the tables turn and *she* tries crank-calling *him* (emphasis on tries). Listen in on the line.
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. 
