Chanteuse
Chanteuse
- Location
- Iowa, United States
- Birthday
- September 23
- Bio
- I am a wife, a mother, a writer, a musician; a woman of many labels. Seemingly ordinary in every way – striving to be extraordinary in some way.
MY RECENT POSTS
- I No Longer Want My MTV
December 11, 2010 12:58PM - A Case for the
Decriminalization of Personal
Drug Use
December 09, 2010 11:56AM - Dieting Deities: The Hollywood
Eating Disorder Merchants
December 07, 2010 05:14PM - A Wild Ride Through Pregnancy
to Motherhood
December 05, 2010 01:42PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Great post-thanks for
the insight. I admit, I was
blown away
when I saw that a
t…”
December 22, 2010 11:24AM - “SeanH-thanks for the
link-interesting article. I
think the
article
oversimplifie…”
December 22, 2010 11:08AM - “Rw005g-you are
absolutely right. And you gave
me a vocabulary
lesson-nice
use of…”
December 13, 2010 05:30PM - “Reading with tears in my
eyes. Thanks for a
touching
piece.”
December 12, 2010 05:05PM - “Mr. Sunshine-you made me
laugh while proving
your
point-Bravo! I can't
count how…”
December 12, 2010 04:59PM
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"I no longer want my MTV." Image provided by Photobucket
As a kid, I thought I would never outgrow the revolutionary juggernaut known as MTV. I remember staying up way past my bedtime on a Friday night, deep into 11-year-old sleepover giggles with my/… Read full post »
I’ll start out by admitting that I am not a huge sports fan, but as a University of Iowa Hawkeye fan, I was saddened and dismayed by headlines about the multiple drug charges the team’s career receiving leader is facing.
Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, a 23-year-old college senior and a wide/… Read full post »
Dieting Deities: The Hollywood Eating Disorder Merchants
I turned on one of those “all celebrity, all the time” shows the other night. You know, the ones that attempt to pass themselves off as “news?” As I watched, I was in sequence, horrified, mildly entertained, disgusted, then slightly entertained again.
“Why/… Read full post »
A Wild Ride Through Pregnancy to Motherhood
Being pregnant wasn’t fun for me…to say the least. Once you become child-bearing age, you find out there are two camps on this subject. Firmly seated in one camp are the women who love, LOVE being pregnant. You’ll hear things like: “I felt the best I ever have in my life… Read full post »
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