Three Blessings that Forgiveness Brings
Category: featured, relationship advice, spirituality, yourchicself
By: Kashia Rachfall
February’s here, and it’s time to evaluate how your New Year’s Resolutions are going. How’s it going? Did you make New Year’s Resolutions for 2010?
This new decade is an opportunity to do in life what you’ve always wanted to do; to be who you’ve always dreamed you could be; to let go of the old habits and grudges and to open yourself to new ways of thinking and being.
Forgiveness can play an integral part in ushering in these new changes that you create for yourself. It will allow you to truly cut ties with any bonds from your past and focus on creating your future and living in the present.
Self Defense Against Distractions
Category: featured, health, yourchicself
By: Carolyn Zengel
Distraction is presence without awareness.
Predators love an attractive subject. And no, being an attractive subject has nothing to do with being good-looking. An attractive subject is someone who looks like easy prey. While there are many adjectives to describe an attractive subject, one that tops the list is distracted. Distraction is presence without awareness. The opposite of attractive, of course, is unattractive, and in terms of predator selection, the “uglier” the better. Also known as a difficult subject (someone whom a predator would rather not deal with), those who demonstrate “unattractive” qualities are those who are aware of their surroundings.
Lady Gaga: The Fame – FULL Review
Category: art and culture, review, yourchicselfBy: Chris Newsom, Chic Mom Music Guru
Gwen Stefani decided to be a cheerleader and landed at #1 with “Hollaback Girl”. Katy Perry “Kissed A Girl” and landed at #1. Britney Spears’ comeback single “Womanizer” placed her at the penthouse. Pop-tarts seem to come and go, but always score a couple of hit singles, with at least one of those landing at the penthouse. For Lady Gaga, she’s had two #1 singles and third single that has landed in the top 5 that should probably have ended up at #1. Who is this “lady” who one of my friends called an “alien”, particularly after that bright pink, bubbly, nude Rolling Stone cover. Who is the real Stefani Germanotta that goes by this Lady Gaga persona and why do people care so much? Well, people care because Gaga seeks to change the face of pop music, as all pop starlets hope to do and it’s a feat that she has easily conquered.
Music Review: Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
Category: art and culture, featured, review, yourchicselfBy: Chris Newsom, Chic Mom Music Guru. (Everybody needs a friend like Chris.)
Originally conceived of as a bonus disc for the re-release of The Fame, the eight-song The Fame Monster is now being released as a standalone EP as well. Gaga probably should have tacked on a few more tracks (and if YouTube is any indication, she’s got the material), titled the thing Monster, and released it sometime next year as her official sophomore effort. As it is, it’s not a huge leap forward for Gaga (several songs ape the sound of her first two chart-toppers, “Just Dance” and “Poker Face”), but songs like “Bad Romance” and “Dance in the Dark” are stacked with towering new-wave synths and seemingly endless hooks; if melodies could be time-stamped, these would have “’80s” branded on them..
