I have lived in Boston's South End neighborhood for nearly five years now, and it seems like both an eternity and a blink of the eye. In that time, I've applied for, gotten ... Read the Post...
Chronically Ill Tips: What To Do When a Doctor Isn’t Listening to You
I have been in pain since 2010 and diagnosed with chronic illnesses since 2010 and man oh man have I spent a lot of time in medical offices and managing chronic illness. ... Read the Post...
How To Support the Blogger in Your Life
A few years ago, I did a Twitter thread of all sorts of different ways you can support bloggers. In that thread, I just listed ways to help and didn't really give any extra ... Read the Post...
Current Daily Makeup Routine
I recently realized that it has been a while since my last beauty/makeup post on here (and Instagram), so it felt like the right time to share my current daily makeup routine! ... Read the Post...
Arthritis Awareness Month
Every month is Arthritis Awareness Month if you live with a form of arthritis, but for everyone else, May is the month for talking about different forms of arthritis, ... Read the Post...
My Journey to Growing Blog Traffic: April Blog Traffic Report
As you guys know, I have been on a journey to growing blog traffic for several years now. 2019 has been an interesting one in this journey. I started the year recovering from ... Read the Post...
What I’ve Been Up To
Oh boy. So much has happened in my life in the last 2 months. In fact, this past weekend was the first one in five weeks that I was home in Boston! That's how wild things have ... Read the Post...
How To Get Followers on Pinterest
Over the last year, a great chunk of my blog traffic has come from Pinterest. I've written before about how to use Pinterest for blog traffic, but today I want to write about ... Read the Post...
HealtheVoices 2019
Janssen Pharmaceuticals paid for my travel and hotel. All opinions are my own. They did not ask me to write a blog post about my time at the conference. For the second year ... Read the Post...
2019 Recent Reads: January-March
This is the third year that I've done [Year] Recent Reads - 2017, 2018, and now 2019 - and, despite how difficult it can be as I keep reading more every year, I really enjoy ... Read the Post...
March Blog Traffic Report: My March Blog Traffic Statistics
Hello, friends! Long time no blog. I took a little break due to a variety of reasons - which I'll actually get into later in this post - so this is my first post in a few ... Read the Post...
How I Manage Social Media for My Blog
One part of blogging that is super important but that isn't talked about a ton is social media. I spend just as much time trying to manage social media for my blog as I do ... Read the Post...
7 Yummy Crockpot Recipes
With my chronic illnesses, I feel best in the morning and usually feel pretty crappy by the end of the day. This means that if I'm going to cook dinner, it's probably going to ... Read the Post...
Building Self Confidence When Chronically Ill
I have been very blessed in that I have always had a very strong sense of self and my value. (I found my 7th grade diary and read that a girl called me ugly, and not only did ... Read the Post...
February Blog Traffic Report
I don't know about you, but February was SUCH a long month for me, despite it actually being the shortest month. I'm glad it's over and that we're moving towards spring, even ... Read the Post...