Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian, May 20, 1946) is an American recording artist, actress, director, and record producer. Referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes and a Cannes Film Festival Award among others for her work in film, music and television.

Cher began her career as a backup singer and later came to prominence as one half of the pop rock duo Sonny & Cher with the success of their song "I Got You Babe" in 1965.

She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist, and became a television star in 1971 with The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, a variety show for which she won a Golden Globe.

This is the THIRD in a series of blog posts that examines the effect of recent changes to Facebook on my (and others’) Facebook fan pages.

The first was 5 Real Estate Ways The New FB Timeline #FAILS My Page & My Fans.

Guest blog post by Lisa Page

Yes, you read the headline correctly. Contrary to what you may have been raised to believe, wanting more pleasure in your life is NOT selfish, sinful or greedy! 

In fact, studies have shown that women who experience more pleasure in their life, tend to enjoy greater physical, mental, emotional and even spiritual well-being, along with greater success and personal fulfillment.

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"Greatness is about who you were born to be, not about who you are pretending to be." ~ @DeeCMarshall

Every Sunday the Crazy Bitch Society invites friends, fans and followers to share their sexiest shoes on the CBS FB page in a fashion extravanza dubbed "Shoe Porn Sunday (TM)."

The result is a flurry of style and stillettos guaranteed to make shoe lovers salivate, as well as some of the wildest and whackiest footwear you've ever seen. Check out the Mother's Day 2012, selection in the five image galleries that follow... (The F#%k You shoes above were the day's most shared.)

“What do you think of this ad from Air New Zealand?”

The question, and a YouTube link, came from my friend Bebhinn Kelly, Chief Fashionista at www.hellwafashion.com, and a regular supplier of juicy, thought-provoking and sometimes controversial material for AWR.

I clicked. I watched. I pondered. I considered blogging. I demurred.

Guest blog post by author & motorcycle aficionado Liz Jansen.

Motorcycles and our relationship with them have much to teach us, whether we ride or not.

The partnership of rider and machine when they join together in perfect harmony is like observing a beautiful dance that gives birth to power, strength, balance and positive change. 

Julia Ward Howe was born May 27, 1819, the fourth child of banker Samuel Ward and occasional poet Julia Rush Cutler. Among her siblings was Samuel Cutler Ward. Her father was a well-to-do banker.

Her mother, granddaughter of William Greene, Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray, died when Julia was five after having borne seven children by the age of 27.

“Our relationships with our mothers (and daughters) are not simple ones, are they?” quips The Warm Milk Journal in the understatement of the millennium on the Amazing Women Rock Facebook page.

The several dozen comments that follow (on my own page as well as that of the Crazy Bitch Society) flesh out the real-life experiences that lie behind her rhetorical question.