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Pop Culture

Cunning Caps and the FOX Alliance

For more than a decade, fans have been knitting in relative silence, making little tokens for their favorite canceled show. Last week, that all began to change.

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Perspectives

Entering Widowhood: The In-Betweens

It’s been a couple months since my last post here on my new status as a “widow.” The horrid “W” word that no one in love or marriage actually wants to think about.

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Pop Culture

Cunning Caps and Reaver Lawsuits

A few days ago, a report came up on The Mary Sue relating to certain sellers on Etsy.com having their accounts suspended or blocked because they sold the hand knit “Jayne Cobb” style cap from the (un-aired) Firefly episode. Other sellers were reporting getting Cease & Desist letters from FOX regarding their selling hand-made knit caps. As many […]

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Perspectives

Entering Widowhood

It’s been almost two years since my last article here on P-Mag. In that time, I had some wonderful adventures and moments – before my husband’s brain cancer began to really change the quality of his life for the worse in 2012. He was in Home Hospice service for about eight months before he passed away […]

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Bodies

A Very Valentine’s Day Cannabis Talk Time

Greetings fellow lovers! This special edition of Cannabis Talk Time focuses on Love in several forms; from the biological – cannabis, disabilities, and sex- to the mental/emotional meanings of love and commitments. We hope everyone has a great day and a chance to share some love around in this world. As always, we welcome comments, […]

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LadyGhosts of TV Past

Ladyghosts: Arrested Development – Pilot

The show opens out on a boat to meet the first character of the family; Michael Bluth. Overly professional looking he eagerly awaits the retirement of his father George Bluth, so he can rise and control the company in name as well as in work ethic. Calm and happy he awaits his father’s speech, until his mother, Lucille comes over stealing the moment; “Look what the homosexuals have done to me, Michael!”

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Bodies

Cannabis Talk Time; A “Merry-juana” New Year

Happy 2011 everyone! After a bit of a break to deal with some of Wash’s cancer issues we are back! We hope everyone has survived the winter holiday season intact and without any new bad incidents. In today’s episode our intrepid time travelers Wash and Tashi visit 2011 from 2010…

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Bodies

Cannabis Talk Time ep 4 Part One

Happy Saturday everyone! This week Wash and I have a very excellent two part investigative piece going on; today’s episode we look at certain stereotypes of smokers defined by the tools they use to smoke with, and the hitting-the-streets reporting we did to verify if it’s true or a crock of rocks.

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Bodies

A Very Halloween Cannabis Talk Time

Happy Halloween Everyone- or Oktoberfest, Samhaim, Good Harvest… Today we wonder about Halloween as adults and ponder chocolate and candy. Come join us! As always send us your questions, comments, and recipes to verdalliance (at) persephonemagazine {dot} com A Very Halloween Cannabis Talk Time

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Bodies

Cannabis Talk Time ep 2

In today’s episode we are discussing food, sex, and consent under the influence. Very exciting episode, and as always send any questions or comments over to verdalliance@persephonemagazine.com

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Op Ed

A Man’s take on Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Cancer isn’t really a term that men face with horror and derision (lest it affects someone around us). But there’s such a deluge of information on the topic, and it’s not only during October. According to the Center for Disease Control, 1,910 men were diagnosed with Breast Cancer last year.

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Bodies

Cannabis Talk Time

Hey there! Tashi and Wash, known around here as Verdalliance, made a vlog about medicinal marijuana to inform and enlighten you this weekend.   Starting next Saturday, it will be a regular weekend feature.  Enjoy the video after the cut!  ~Ophelia

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Crossposts

One Day A Year Could Save Your Life

When this article is published I will be sitting in my doctor’s office waiting to hear some test results for myself. I will most likely be utterly composed on the outside and utterly terrified on the inside.

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Bodies

An introduction to chemotherapy

I woke up and realized that it was very very difficult to move. And I realized this was because of the drugs I am taking for the hole in my head. Let me explain, it’s not a real “hole” as it were but a divot left from the apple sized tumor taken from my brain […]