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On Moving Abroad in a Pandemic

Lately, life has been a dark room with hundreds of red lasers creating a chaotic web of traps. You know, the ones in spy movies where one wrong move, one slip or one shake makes the alarm start blaring. Game over. These past six or seven months have been exactly that — a seemingly impossible situation with one hurdle lined up after another, knowing that I need to get to the other side but not knowing exactly what it is. I’ve been waiting to get official clearance to apply for a visa to teach English in France and got...

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How to Use Pinterest for Blogging

Work smart, not hard. During sophomore year of high school, my AP European History teacher told us this adage when it came to studying for the big exam, but I’ve found that this “work smart, not hard” mantra is one to adopt for all of life, including blogging and business ventures. One great way to work smart not hard on your blog is through Pinterest. This search engine platform is my biggest driver of traffic — it’s brought more than 115,000 visitors to my site and my account has nearly 400,000 monthly visitors. Let’s chat about how to use...

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13 Best Books Set in France

Once I graduated from college, I had lots of time to myself again. Although I miss the late night girl talk, meetings at 8 p.m., working out in the middle of the day, and rolling out of bed for class — ok, wow that’s a lot — I’m also really enjoying this calmer pace of post-grad life. I’ve been using this time to explore my own hobbies: blogging, exercise and reading. As a girl, I always loved D.E.A.R. time at school, but when life got busy, that was one of the first things to go. But now that I...

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6 SEO Tips for Bloggers

One of the biggest game changers for my blog has been focusing on SEO and by a landslide at that. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. Maybe you haven’t heard of this specific term, but you’ve definitely benefited from it. SEO is all about making your webpage and blog posts easier for Google and other search engines to find. No matter where you’re at in your blogging journey, this post is for you because I’m sharing my best SEO tips for bloggers. Why do bloggers need to focus on SEO? I didn’t start working on SEO until last year,...

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9 Easy Ways to Upgrade Your Blog and Get More Traffic

Do you ever just feel stuck? You want to take your new blog to the next level, but you don’t know how to do that. And you want to grow your traffic and heck, maybe make money. Maybe you want to turn your blog more into a business but just don’t know how to upgrade your blog. What’s worth the investment? What tools are essential for professional bloggers? Today I’m sharing 9 ways to upgrade your blog and get more traffic like a pro. This post includes affiliate links, which means I may earn a kickback from included links....

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13 Movies to Make You Feel Like You Took Your Vacation

Anyone else bumming you haven’t gotten a new stamp in your passport for awhile? Thanks to a certain worldwide pandemic, now’s not a great time for people who love travel. I canceled what would have been my first ever trips to New York City and France, and I don’t feel confident about rescheduling these canceled vacations anytime soon. If you’re like me and wish you walking the Seine or touring The Met, I’m here to help with the only happy medium I can find: watching movies that make you feel like you’re on vacation. Whether you were dreaming of...

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5 Decorative Planning Ideas

I am a planner gal through and through. Or at least, I thought I was until I met Jessica Edoho, my sweet friend and decorative planning Instagrammer. My knowledge of the planner world was the few sold at Target and my years long love affair with ban.do planners. But Jessica currently uses four different planners. She opened my eyes to the decorative planning world and is sharing her 5 decorative planning ideas. This post includes affiliate links, which means I or Jessica may earn a commission from links or codes used. These help us run our small businesses and...

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7 Ways to Practice Self-Care in Quarantine

Life in quarantine has been getting to me. I’m moody, stir crazy, antsy, upset and frustrated all in the same day, and then I get upset with myself for being upset. It’s easy to beat ourselves up for being an emotional, unproductive couch potato-meets-marshmallow of sorts, and it’s hard to know how to take the next step. Taking care of ourselves has gone by the wayside, so I wanted to share 7 ideas on how to practice self-care in quarantine. This post includes affiliate links, which means I may earn a kickback from items purchased through these links. These...

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Free Video Series: Blogging Basics

Have you thought about starting a blog? Maybe you’ve dreamed of starting your own site and sharing your stories, but it kinda terrifies you. What if no one reads it? Will anyone care? How do I even go about setting one up? What should I blog about? I hear you, and I hear those real fears. Starting a blog is a daunting process because there’s so much to figure out. (And I’ve written extensively on specific topics from how to make money to SEO help.) But I want to ease your startup process. And I want to tell you...

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