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Travel

Persephone Travels: Curacao

In a maddening (“maddening”) situation of “someone has to do it,” I spent half of January on the island of Curacao (Dutch Antilles, not Cuba, etc). Mister Freckle and I thought it was a nice half way meeting point between the US and the Netherlands, the amazing island itself came later into the decision.

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Open Thread

This Open Thread is Rocking a Fatkini

Beach time, mofos.

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Open Thread

This Weekend Open Thread is Chillaxing

Summer is almost over. Let’s relax a bit before we can’t anymore.

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Perspectives

A Day at the Beach (Comic)

There will be plenty of people who would love to ruin your day at the beach with misconceptions, shallowness, and overall idiocy.

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Reader Challenge

Positivity Challenge Week 9: Finding a Happy Place

Oh, the elusive Happy Place. Sometimes used as an emotional retreat from trauma, sometimes as a mental break from outside stressors, and sometimes as a physical location where one can tune off the outside world. Creating and cultivating a Happy Place for yourself, both mentally and physically, can be one of the most beneficial things […]

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Veg*

More Vegan Beach Food! Sandwich Edition

Biking to the beach on the weekend is becoming a habit for my girlfriend and I as of late. Did you know you can jump on your bike in Brooklyn and be at a beach in less than two hours? It’s true! And as much as I’d love to just drink tallboys and eat a […]

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Ladyguides

Welcome to the Beach: a Ladyguide

It’s summer! (Well, kind of.) Hooray! Time to enjoy all the wonderful things that June, July, and August have to offer, like delicious in-season fruit, finally letting your arms and legs see the light of day, and super-fun trips to the beach!

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Style

Polyvore Outfits: Vintage Ladies of Yore

If any of you pal around on Polyvore, you’ve probably noticed that all the “cool” Polyvore users (well, I assume they’re cool, because they’re the ones winning contests to style models in NYC for fashion week) copy images from Vogue, et. al., use them as backgrounds, and add products to recreate the style of the […]

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The Daily Goodie

Daily Goodie: 1/20

We’re going to warmer, sunnier places again today, readers.  This time we’re taking a visual field trip to the future Persephone offices where we shall wear sandals all year round and eat peaches we grow ourselves.