When I retired from the administrative and financial fields, I was at loose ends. From an early age, I was a writer, so combining travel and writing was a natural fit. In 2014, I went to the Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop, during which I attended Paula Pant’s breakout session on blogging. It clicked! After returning […]
There’s a “Dear Abby” column from 1994 that always struck me as particularly important, and for about a decade I carried the clipping around in my wallet until finally it disintegrated from being folded and unfolded so many times. In the column, a 36-year-old woman calling herself “Unfulfilled” – she explained that she was a […]
The day my corporate job was eliminated, my husband and I celebrated. Sure, I was scared—after all, I was losing a good income. But my excitement for my newfound freedom overshadowed my fear. I could now more fully follow my dream of traveling—and writing about it. I had started a travel blog the year before […]
I’d like to switch topics this week to the idea of starting a travel blog. So many of our readers want one. But if you want to make money from your blog, you need to set it up the right way. Let’s start by looking at a few healthy blogs worthy of emulation, and […]
Many people dream about getting paid to travel the world, yet so few make it happen. It was my dream, too. But I didn’t just give it lip service; I made a plan to accomplish that goal. A big part of that was creating my travel blog, Luggage and Lipstick. A travel blog is a […]
Now that everyone’s on Facebook, everyone’s a writer. Everyone has an opinion that they believe the world deserves to hear – and many of them are right. Too bad, though, that much of that writing is more about writers’ needs to be heard than about enlightening the rest of the world. And too bad it’s […]
At Great Escape’s recent Ultimate Travel Writer’s Workshop in New Orleans, I was pleasantly surprised by how many of the attendees already have or are working on their own blogs. They weren’t in the majority, by a long shot – but their numbers are clearly growing. As for the other attendees, I was also struck […]
I’ve been writing a monthly travel column in The Denver Post since January of 2012, and I’m the author of six books about travel. All of that work can be traced back to my blog, The Tranquilo Traveler, which I created in 2005. The initial purpose of my blog was to display and build my […]
When most bloggers think about publicizing their blog, they turn to Facebook and Instagram. But I’d argue that Pinterest is a powerful social media tool, too. It allows users to “pin” things that interest them to digital “boards” inside the program. For example, I have a Pinterest board for recipes I want to try and […]
I was listening to an interview with computer security expert Bruce Schneier this weekend and he brought up a very good point… There’s a difference between feeling safe and being safe, he said. It’s an important distinction because you can actually feel very safe when you’re not. And be very safe when you feel insecure. He was […]
