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What Would Cher Do? A Mid-Life Guide to Greatness

By //  by Candace Sampson 1 Comment

As mid-life awakenings go (I refuse to call it a crisis), mine has been pretty tame. Quite ho-hum actually. I left my husband with a bang one day last June and never looked back, travelled to Europe with my daughters in July, moved back in with my parents in August, moved into a new home in September, lost 20 pounds, and was falling in love by October. Hmmm, maybe tame is the wrong word. Needless to say, while the external changes have been sweeping, the changes in me have been profound. …

Filed Under: Concerts, Pop Culture, Travel Tagged With: Cher, Cher Concert, The Cher Show, the legend of cher, What would cher do

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Blake Shelton, SMA 2017, And A Word About Equality

By //  by Jennifer Pitt Leave a Comment

(Edit: I stand by my points about equality and impossible standards, but because of this I firmly believe that Blake Shelton is NOT a good choice at all. If People wanted to choose a regular guy for SMA, there were FAR better choices than a racist and homophobic Blake Shelton, who couches his "apology" under the guise of "comedy."- JP) If anything good is coming out of the Trumpian Era, it’s that more and more people are standing up for women and equality, shining a glaring light on how …

Filed Under: Hot Topics, Pop Culture Tagged With: beauty, beauty standards, Blake Shelton, equality, reality, Sexiest man Alive 2017, SMA 2017, standards

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Sexual Harassment & The Imbalance of Power In Hollywood

By //  by Jennifer Pitt Leave a Comment

I want to talk about Harvey Weinstein and the sexual harassment tornado that is swirling around him. I want to get the dirty details because I am a gossip hound, and in the blogging world—at least, in the entertainment blogging world—dirty details are good for business. And as much as I may want to write about the dirty details, the "what" of the details are just not the problem. They are the problem initially because he  sexually harassed what will probably amount to hundreds of women …

Filed Under: Living, Pop Culture Tagged With: equality, Harvey Weinstein, imbalance of power, Kate Winslet, men, power, sexual harassment, women, Woody Allen

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Goodbye 2016: It’s not Us, it’s You

By //  by Jennifer Pitt 4 Comments

2016 did not feel like a great year, let's be honest. It felt like the hits just kept coming, and Facebook was littered with epithets against 2016, asking how much more we were expected to take. As it turned out, a lot. Leonard Cohen, Prince, David Bowie, Muhammad Ali, to name just a few of the way-too-many celebrities that passed away this year. Even in 2016’s final days it took Alan Thicke, George Michael, Carrie Fisher, and, just 24 hours later, her mother Debbie Reynolds. The most …

Filed Under: Living, Pop Culture, World Gone Mad Tagged With: 2016, best events in Canada in 2016, Canada, Canada did it right in 2016, celebrities, did anything good happen in Canada in 2016, highs and lows, more reasons why Canada is the best country in the world, the best things to happen in Canada in 2016, trudeau

What the Gilmore Girls Mean to Me

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When I was a teenager, I faced a very difficult decision: to stay with the pimply, immature, (cheating) teen-aged boy and raise the family that we had accidentally started, or stop that in its tracks and move on with my life. Thankfully, I chose the latter and never looked back. I have no regrets about my choices, because my life would be very different now if I hadn't chosen as I did, and I kind of like the little life I have created. Image Source: jeffmason on Flickr When Gilmore …

Filed Under: Living, Parenting, Pop Culture Tagged With: gilmore girls, lorelai, netflix, revival, rory, The Gilmore Girls gives us a glimpse of what life might be like

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