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  • TwinWatch News: Stanford twins keep Pac-10 opponents on their toes

    Read about 7-foot twin brothers Robin and Brook Lopez, both freshmen basketball players for Stanford. There’s a Q & A where the brothers talk about each other’s strengths as ball players.

  • Riddle Me This! Retold by Hugh Lupton, illustrated by Sophie Fatus

    About Children’s Book Reviews @ BeTwinned Photo from Amazon.com Review by Sandra Horning This winter my children and I have been spending lots of time sitting around the wood stove and snuggling as we read collections of stories. Last week we came across a great collection of riddles and stories, Riddle Me This! Riddles and…

  • Ah, twins

    Just a glimpse from just-before-bed-time last night: My adorable little three-and-a-half-year old twins working sweetly on a puzzle together singing, “We’ll work together, we’ll be friends forever,” from Pooh’s Heffalump Movie. And then I called them upstairs for bed, and Djuna read out loud to Dinah while she tried to poop on the potty. How…

  • The house with two of everything

    “Welcome to the house with two of everything,” said a friend of mine as he came into our home recently. I hadn’t seen him in awhile, and he caught sight of a pair of chattering Elmo dolls as he entered. This stung a little. I am aware that I have a “thing” for toys and…

  • TwinWatch: Fencing twins foil the opposition (and sometimes each other)

    Freshmen twins Christa and Kayley French are creating “a bright future” for their Northwestern University epee team, according to an article in The Daily Northwestern. Even better than seeing twins excel, I just love that Northwestern University was one of the few universities that was willing to recruit both young women, rather than just pick…

  • TwinWatch: Australian pop stars join twin study

    Twins and higher order multiples participating in all sorts of health studies is nothing new, of course. (Read all about the importance of twin studies here on BeTwinned.) But Jess and Lisa Origliasso, 22, better known in Australia as pop stars The Veronicas, have been signing up for twin studies since they were kids, according…