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I've had this blog for about five years now and while the $200/year hasn't been particularly expensive, it has been a sunk cost and one that I wasn't inclined to address while my blog was undergoing significant changes in audience, content, and design. After all, the first step to blogging is to be honest about your purpose and authentic in your writing; so recouping operating costs weren't exactly high on my priority list.
Late in 2014, however, I figured that I stabilized enough to warrant giving serious consideration to monetization. So I set out to do a couple of easy things: (1) Set up an Amazon Affiliate account, (2) Improve my organic Search Engine Results, (3) Grow my RSS and Newsletter subscriptions, (4) Optimize my blog to promote monetization and retain readers, and (5) Build a community.
While many of the techniques described here can be used for any blog, the more technical mechanics will focus on how to do so with Squarespace, my webhost of choice for the last five years.
Audience history (Oct 15 - May 16)
Step One: Amazon Affiliation
This included researching what it meant to become affiliated with Amazon and the best practices on how to do it. This blog post from problogger.net, in particular, was extremely helpful in helping me jump start my Amazon Affiliation. In addition to learning from others' mistakes and lessons, I grabbed a book off the internet (Amazon of all places) and tried to incorporate as much of the best practices as I could.
It's worth noting that it is still valuable to link to free products on Amazon because the Amazon Affiliation program doesn't give you a stipend for items that you link to, but rather items purchased from your links. For example, if John clicks on your link for Levis, but decides to purchase Wranglers instead, you still receive a commission on that sale. Similarly, if Jill "purchases" a free book from Amazon and then continues shopping to purchase a waffle maker, then you get a commission on that waffle maker, and anything else Jill purchases during that shopping session. I highlight this distinction for two very important reasons:
- The purpose of your blog is not, nor should it be, to generate revenue. There's a reason monetizing a blog comes after the blog has been established for a while; content is the heart and soul of your website.
- Your affiliate links should be relevant to the topic and to your customer base. Linking to an amazon listing for "bullets" when your post is referring to bullet points (e.g. lists), or simply linking to the most expensive item that fits your post is incredibly dishonest.
Step Two: Improving my Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
While I had been playing with SEO since I found my topic, I hadn't really put a lot of effort into the confusing topic. So I looked at two different blog posts that taught me how improve my SEO (searchenginewatch and problogger). The main lessons learned here (for me) was to capitalize on "related searches" on Google to cut down on competition. For example, instead of tagging my post with "video game" I would use the related search of "computer video game." Essentially, specificity in categories and tags would improve organic search results and the amount of time each person spent on your site.
Another great post was this one from Backlinko that highlighted some of the more prevailing theories, about 200 of them, among SEO enthusiasts that seemed legitimate enough to put some effort into. Of those, I found several that seemed to fit my strategy:
- Content Length: Content with more words can cover a wider breadth and are likely preferred to shorter superficial articles.
- Image Optimization: Images on-page send search engines important relevancy signals through their file name, alt text, title, description and caption.
- Keyword Word Order: An exact match of a searcher's keyword in a page's content will generally rank better than the same keyword phrase in a different order. For example: consider a search for: "cat shaving techniques". A page optimized for the phrase "cat shaving techniques" will rank better than a page optimized for "techniques for shaving a cat". This is a good illustration of why keyword research is really, really important.
My article "Three Common Problems with Plex" is a good example of this in action, albeit by complete accident. Once I started focusing on keywords and their orders, I discovered a helpful tool: Google Trends.
It was here that I started researching my previous generic tags and finding related search queries and building up my tags to include a broader amount of search queries and soon things like "Hilary Clinton Scandal" included "Partisan Polarization" as related keyword tags. Once I got the technique down, I went back and modified every blog post I still had public.
- References and Sources: Citing references and sources, like research papers do, may be a sign of quality. The Google Quality Guidelines states that reviewers should keep an eye out for sources when looking at certain pages: "This is a topic where expertise and/or authoritative sources are important…"
- Bullets and Numbered Lists: Bullets and numbered lists help break up your content for readers, making them more user friendly. Google likely agrees and may prefer content with bullets and numbers.
- Domain Trust/TrustRank: Site trust — measured by how many links away your site is from highly-trusted seed sites — is a massively important ranking factor.
- Presence of Sitemap: A sitemap helps search engines index your pages easier and more thoroughly, improving visibility.
This is fairly easy to accomplish in Squarespace. It's automatically created with your account, but it isn't automatically linked to where a webcrawler can acquire it. To do this, you'll want to follow the steps outlined below.
Once the sitemap is created, you'll want to submit it and test it with Google's Webmaster tools.
You may get the error (This url is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location) for many of your images that have URL referencing squarespace.com; this is normal. It simply means that for those images, in my case 38 of 580 images, reference a domain other than the one I supplied (e.g. squarespace.com doesn't match danialhallock.com) and cannot be indexed.
- Terms of Service, Contact Me, and Privacy Pages: These pages help tell Google that a site is a trustworthy member of the internet. This was as easy as creating a new page and nesting it under a folder for aesthetic reasons.
Once the pages were created, it was merely a matter of filling them out with the appropriate material, like a Contact Me form, and the Terms of Service - which for a blog was essentially "these are your key assumptions when reading me!"
Step three: Grow my RSS and newsletter subscriptions
There was no magic bullet for increasing newsletter subscriptions. I simply had to keep referencing my newsletter and offering minor perks for those who subscribed. The absolute biggest thing that helped me grow my newsletter subscription numbers was actually, you know, sending the damn thing out. Growing my RSS subscriptions was a little easier, relying heavily on two tools: Apple Syndication, and including an RSS/Index feed.
1. Apple News
Squarespace Help has a tutorial on how to set this up if you need a little more help, but the down and dirty is in the slideshow below. Sign up for an Apple News account here, and then link it to your Squarespace account by following the steps below.
2. Creating your Index and RSS Feed
Creating an index starts by creating a new page, like we did with the sitemap. Begin by adding a new field at the top for a search function, to help users who might click on this page to find a specific post or topic.
Then add your RSS link by adding a new field for RSS to give people a way to manually subscribe to your RSS feed, as well as enable search engines to locate the link within your site.
Below that, add your archive to give viewers the ability to quickly find content based on its chronological order, and another way for search engines to locate your content.
Step Four: Optimize my blog
There was a massive gap between steps three and four while I waited to see what results my first attempts would have. Once I was certain that things had more or less evened out, it was time to optimize.
1. Optimize Performance
This was a little overdue and, to be honest, a massive pain in the ass. It involved a lot of work with Google Development tools to try to optimize my blog for speed and user experience, mostly through using PageSpeed Insights and resolving the issues one-by-one until I got things up to an acceptable level.
2. Optimize SEO
It's not enough to just cram the SEO techniques into the blog; I needed to see how they were performing and, if necessary, adjust. Periodically checking your Google Search Console to see which keywords were working for you, and Google Trends to find which you needed to exploit, would be extremely important to enable you to transition from the graphic below, to something a little more helpful.
It also involved using the Google Search Console to highlight data to help Google make sense of it and improve my search results.
3. Optimize Imagery
This one was my least favorite; the main reason of which is because I have an embarrassingly large number of images that are simply named "1" or "Capture.PNG" due to my affinity for Window's Snipping Tool. This meant finding banner images for every post, recreating "fuzzy" images, renaming damn near everything, and creating captions where appropriate. One tool to help with this was Unspash, which sends out weekly digests of free public-use images, like this one:
Step Five: Build a Community
Finally, I wanted to build a community that went beyond sharing my blog posts to Google Plus, so I turned to Disqus and added them to my website. Disqus was a fantastic decision because not only does it create a transparent social network (e.g. Someone comments on my post from my website, it automatically shares their conversation thread to the Disqus' social media), but the Disqus social network is, in and of itself, SEO optimized.
This had the (albeit rare) benefit of snowballing a few conversations through people who didn't see my post seeing the comment of someone who had, and helped share my content through other avenues and, more importantly, creating a sense of community that was otherwise unobtainable.
I also started using trackback links embedded in Kinja (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, etc) comments and Goodreads' reviews, Squarespace forum posts, and basically any other place where I had a presence that I wasn't capitalizing on. Also, whenever I used a source that had a Disqus', or Google+ enabled comments section, I would include a link to the article I'd written about it, hoping to draw people to my website.
The number of referrals were fairly small, but given that I was only starting to establish my "brand" (ugh, I hate saying that), every little bit counted. In addition to this, I also started cross-posting a few of my guides and life "hack" type posts (like this one) to my kinja blog with a summary and a link to the original article hosted here on my website. The number of referrals from these were slightly higher than those of my trackbacks, but were still nothing particularly revolutionary.
Overwhelmingly, the main benefit to all of these trackback links, Disqus integration, and cross-posting to Kinja was increased relevancy in Search Engine Results without being shady or breaking any of Google's rules. So while I didn't notice a significant uptick in individual referrals, once I got to this stage of the monetization process, I had noticed an uptick in organic search results.
These results started around the middle of May (when I started this project), and I took fairly decent notes as I went along, grabbing the information for each month on the last day of the month. In the interest of full disclosure, I also started resharing old content directly to Google Plus as well. While I only strived to created a new blog post once a month, I would share a post once a week, therefore recycling old content and propping up my audience numbers a bit more.
This was a decision that I didn't make lightly, but the main point of having a blog is to have historic content, and every post kept should be used to try to build an audience, and it should be used more than once.
Audience History (Nov 16 - Nov 17)
It's readily apparent that November 2016 did not have a significantly different audience size than May 2016 (only a gain of about 42 people). This was more-or-less to be expected given that Steps One and Two took place at the beginning of May, whereas steps Three through Five took place at the beginning of November. It wouldn't be until December that I could begin to ascertain what affect, if any, my efforts would have on increasing my audience's size.
Earning's History (May 15 - May 16)
It stands to reason that earnings through advertisements and affiliate links would be proportional to my audience size, so as my audience size grew, so too did the earning; though not as fast as you might have wanted.
While "monetizing your blog" is something that countless bloggers espouse as being a fantastic way to generate some passive income, very few really show the slow grind that it takes to make the blog worth anything beyond the occasional cup of coffee. More importantly, while they're quick to begin their, usually superficial, posts with the idea that content should be at the heart of every blog, they never explain just how long their blog was purely content-based with no monetization efforts attempted.
With so little effort put into addressing the running totals and the realities of blog monetization, it's no wonder that there is still a need for posts like these. In the future, I'll address the monetary realities of releasing independently-published books (spoiler: It's not pretty), coupled with a monetized blog in an effort to really highlight the challenges facing independent authors in today's economic environment.
It's an entirely doable strategy, and a good way to pick up some extra scratch if you have a passion and knack for writing, but it takes a lot more work than I think most bloggers let-on. It takes more than exhaustive lists of 200 some-odd surface level ideas (e.g. Backlinko), but real strategies discussing the technical aspects of attacking those ideas and putting them to work for your blog. It requires an understanding of not just your message, but also:
- Data Science, and how search engines work
- Data Analysis, and how to understand the way your actions affect trends
- Marketing, and how to appeal to your readers
- Graphic Design, and how to build an appealing blog
- Web Design, and how to build a safe, secure, and attractive community
That list isn't even remotely all-inclusive; the real list is almost insurmountably large, and entirely sobering. The eighteen month journey I embarked one in mid-2015 made me realize that, perhaps, the reason I put-off monetizing my blog was not entirely to focus on my content, but also to put off the incredibly daunting, and far-less glamorous work of actually promoting it. After all, I have a passion for writing not promoting things, and it was a difficult task that laid ahead.
Ultimately though, monetization forced me to consider the value of my work and walked me to the realization that, if I don't value it - and promote it accordingly - then my work will suffer. Passion can only take a blog so far before the audience base stagnates.


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This past weekend I attended Tribeca Interactive, an all-day forum hosted by the Tribeca Film Institute (TFI). The forum brings together "thinkers and innovators from the worlds of film, media, gaming, technology and society to explore storytelling in the digital age." Dalia Othman and I liveblogged some highlights from the day:
Look Who's Watching: What can storytellers learn from the privacy debate
Ben Moskowitz (ITP/ Mozilla)
Ben Moskowitz addresses questions of privacy and ownership over data and suggests the concept of procedural, data-driven storytelling, where personal stories are based on user data. He discusses personalized storytelling as a data-enabled technique that goes beyond interactive storytelling. Take This Lollipop is an example of an online film that brings users into the film experience through drawing from their Facebook profiles (experiencing the film requires connecting with Facebook). Using data to make documentaries more persuasive and personalized could include motion graphics, voiceovers, or scene selection (e.g. scene selection changes based on user data). He addresses some concerns with this approach – including ceding authorial control and privacy issues – but focuses on the potential for enhanced creative storytelling.
Documentary, Expanding
Wendy Levy (New Arts AXIS)
She focuses on the need to connect artists, technologists, and communities to facilitate unexpected collaborations and to tell stories that shift mindsets. According to Wendy, "we have to create spaces where stories become present and the apparatus becomes discreet." She describes her most effective collaboration as those that come along with a sense of loss and letting go (equal between collaborators). Several of her projects illustrate these concepts:
Sparkwise "gives meaning to your data and momentum to your goals." The platform contextualizes data by combining metrics with video, audio, text messages, and other content to create online stories.
Stories of Change weaves together documentary storytelling and social entrepreneurship.
This is Our City is a 6 foot fence of photographs in Oakland. The idea is to create a public art piece that brings communities together in representing and engaging in dialogue focusing on their city.
Lyka: The Adventure
Lance Weiler (Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia University)
Lance believes in discovery based learning, so created Lyka as a learning tool. Lyka is a robot that made it to earth because her planet is being destroyed due to environmental degradation, so Lyka is on a mission to save her planet. Lyka helps kids become heroes by helping her return to her planet. The project is a "STEAM learning lab on wheels" and mixes storytelling and game design to build 21st century skills. They bring Lyka to schools and run lab sessions with challenges that weave together coding and storytelling.
Beta!: Making Game Design Fun and Accessible
Errol King (Beta!)
He starts by telling us his "life story in 60 seconds." He talks about Super Mario Brothers and his love of videogames, and how he learned math through video games. He was diagnosed with ADHD and then put in front of more games. He has always been a maker, and he wants to make things with a purpose. He worked at a Boys and Girls club and watched kids play games in a classroom and asked himself, "Can gaming give people a voice?" He and some buddies blended various gaming techniques to create BETA, a gaming learning platform. They created a language called Codepop, which he describes as a "tweet-sized" interpreted language. They facilitate workshops and encourage children to take on roles during the workshops ("coder," "game designer," etc.). He wants people to make the world they wish to see; the world is open source, so access it and make it what you want.
Don't Build Audiences, Build Community
Andrew Devigal (Digital Media Innovator & Strategist)
Andrew says his aim is to build a community, not an audience; he wants to shift the conversation from one of audience interaction to one of community interaction. He says that we need to go beyond Facebook likes and retweets. Impacted communities have invaluable knowledge that needs to be voiced. While we tend to hear polarized voices, we need to hear from communities. He introduces Harvis, a mobile tool where people can provide feedback on a viewing experience. His team has used Harvis at screenings of documentary films as a way to promote collective dialogue. Harvis allows audiences to upvote or downvote and also provide commentary during a viewing experience. Throughout his presentation, Andrew trials Harvis with the TFI audience and at the end of the presentation shows a timeline with an interactive display of audience responses to the presentation. Harvis can immediately surface issues most important to a community and mine hidden stories.
Real is a Platform Too
Michel Reilhac
Michel describes the traditional divide between "reality" and "fiction:"
real = physical = facts = true
fiction = virtual = imagination = false
This is the way we have been educated to think, but today we have a different notion of what reality means:
real = physical + virtual + fiction + facts + imagination.
The notion of reality we are dealing with is multi-layered. We need to engage with real life through meaning physical experiences and true relationships (not just friends on facebook).
He shows a video for Coca Cola's Social Media Guard. The ad hasn't been played in the U.S., but it's interesting that big brands tap into the collective anxiety over social media overdose. Being constantly overdosed in virtual reality leads us to experience loneliness. He shows "The Innovation of Loneliness" and then describes how mixing real life and screen experiences is a great opportunity for enhanced real life experience; real life is an interface and a platform. There's a deep trend towards stories that are pervasive and permanent. He cites a study that confirms that stories will increasingly interact with us in the real world. The natural consequence of this shift is that stories will be told 24/7. Stories can be tools to help us change the world around us.
Shadow, a project that purports to create the largest dream database in the world.
Flashmob, an example of an entry point to a story about plastic waste.
CinemaCity, augmented reality app allowing users to view classic film clips overlaid on the location where the scene takes place in Paris.
Introducing the DocuBase
William Uricchio (MIT Open Doc Lab)
William touches on historical context for today's interactive documentary field, discussing how viewing practices shifted dramatically in the early 1900s and are currently undergoing a significant shift. He introduces DocuBase and gives an overview on the interface, starting with Fort McMoney as an example. He says the goal of DocuBase is to map the field and provide a way for people to learn about interactive documentaries. The site includes "making of" information and interviews with directors. The site is a helpful resource for a new generation of documentary filmmakers. He shows the curated lists of interactive documentaries on the site and uses Ingrid Kopp's list as an example; curated lists are a way to lead users into the interactive documentary space. DocuBase is a research tool and lends insight into how people are framing interactive documentary projects.
Closing Keynote – Digital Dissatisfaction: The Limits of Technology
Jonathan Harris (Artist)
He starts by saying he's going to talk about technology and timelessness. Rectangles don't appear in nature, so let's stop integrating them into digital interfaces. He talks about his own relationship with technology; he spent his 20s staring at screens and his early 30s in cabins and in nature, and now's he's in a middle zone. He gives examples of timelessness: a wooden bird, a shell necklace, a pencil. Somewhat timeless things on the internet include Wikipedia and Craigslist, as they haven't changed much in the past 10 years (giving them a sense of authority).
Well executed ideas often have these qualities: Playfulness that feels natural (i.e. of nature); pacing that matches the time in which you live; relevance to your current reality; endlessness, delivered in layers; flow to fill an empty niche.
He summarizes his projects in simple sentence descriptions:
10X10: "An hourly snapshot of life on earth" (2004)
We feel fine: "A search engine for human emotions" (2006)
Cowbird: "A public library of human experience" (2011)
He demos Cowbird and reads stories from the platform, illustrating how stories are connected and tagged on the ecosystem.
Why does timelessness matter? Timeliness is appealing, but it's harder to draw people with timelessness. He cites a story where he sees an Old New Yorker cover depicting significant artworks growing out of masses of people, and talks about great works of art that are timeless and are the building blocks of civilization. In a changing world, people need anchors and lighthouses. Timeless things provide these anchors. Meaning takes time to accumulate; love is slow.

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Beautiful: A CreateU Visual Journaling Layout
I loved all of the heart shaped chipboard, stickers and brads in the Confidence kit from CreateU Visual Journaling. You can find all 7 of their kits on their blog or stop by their facebook page.
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Once again, Prime-time Parlay is all about the best games: Thursday, Sunday and Monday's prime-time games and the top 1 p.m. ET and 4 p.m. ET Sunday matchups. Straight-up picks, but you have to hit all seven. Then we calculate how much you would earn for the parlay, using Westgate's money lines.
Via ESPN's Football Power Index, Prime-time Parlay tells you the analytics-based predictions for the meetings of greatest national import, offering the smart picks for the games you'll be watching. (All NFL point spreads and money lines can be found here).
Total payout for Week 14 Prime-time Parlay (selecting all FPI-projected winners in seven games): $656.77 on $100 wager
Jacksonville Jaguars at Tennessee Titans (8:20 p.m. ET Thursday, Fox/NFL Network)
Money line: Titans -210
FPI projection: Titans win by 4.6 points
FPI thinks the Jags are worse off with Cody Kessler starting at quarterback than they were with Blake Bortles. With Kessler, we expect them to be the fifth-worst offense going forward. -- Seth Walder
Baltimore Ravens at Kansas City Chiefs (1 p.m. ET Sunday, CBS)
Money line: Chiefs -300
FPI projection: Chiefs win by 9.1 points
An example of why offense is more important than defense. The Chiefs have the second-best offense, and the Ravens have the second-best defense. However, the Chiefs offense's advantage over an average team is more than double the margin of the Ravens defense's advantage. -- Seth Walder
Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys (4:25 p.m. ET Sunday, Fox)
Money line: Cowboys -185
FPI projection: Cowboys win by 5.9 points
The Eagles are on short rest, and the Cowboys are on long rest. FPI takes that differential into account, and it's part of the reason why it's this confident about Dallas. -- Seth Walder
Los Angeles Rams at Chicago Bears (8:20 p.m. ET Sunday, NBC)
Money line: Rams -170
FPI projection: Rams win by 2.2 points
Aaron Donald beats his blocker at a slightly higher rate within 2 seconds of the snap (24 percent) than Khalil Mack does in 2.5 seconds (23 percent), per ESPN pass-rush metrics using NFL Next Gen Stats. The Bears' defense is better overall, but it's not nearly enough to overcome a superior Rams offense. -- Seth Walder
Minnesota Vikings at Seattle Seahawks (8:15 p.m. ET Monday, ESPN)
Money line: Seahawks -175
FPI projection: Seahawks win by 5.4 points
Kirk Cousins is hindered by the fifth-worst pass-blocking unit in front of him, per PBWR. The Vikings have the best defense in football, FPI thinks, but combined with their offensive weakness, that's not enough to overcome Seattle's eighth-best offense coupled with an average defense. -- Seth Walder


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Udaipur boat accident: Minor driver of 20-seater blamed
The owner of the 6-seater speed boat, which collided with a 20-seater one in Udaipur's Fateh Sagar lake, said on Tuesday that the accident happened because the driver of the other boat was a minor and did not have a licencejaipur Updated: May 30, 2017 20:49 IST
The owner of the 6-seater speed boat, which collided with a 20-seater one in Udaipur's Fateh Sagar lake, said on Tuesday that the accident happened because the driver of the other boat was a minor and did not have a licence.
In the Monday evening accident, a 3-year-old girl fell into the lake .
Rescue operations by the police and private divers to find the girl proved unsuccessful till late on Tuesday evening.
Ashraf Khan, the contractor of the 6-seater boat, said his driver was professionally trained and licensed to drive the speed boat; the other boat was driven by a minor boy who did not have a licence.
"In addition, their boat stopped in the middle of the lake as its engine went off. Our driver thought that the other boat would cross by the time his boat would reach but it did not, and the mishap occurred," Khan said.
Mohsin, the driver of the 6-seater, has been arrested for negligent driving; other victims were rescued and rushed to MB hospital, an official at the Ambamata police station told HT.
The incident, police said, occurred on Monday evening when Vidyadhar Saini, a chartered accountant from Jaipur, was riding the 6-seater boat with his family and neighbours, and their driver lost control of the boat and rammed into the 20-seater boat that was carrying 11 passengers.
When the collision took place, Saini, his daughter Chahak, his neighbour, and the neighbour's seven-year-old son fell into the lake. Everybody was wearing life-jackets, but the one worn by the three-year-old girl proved too big for her; it came off when she fell into the water. Without the life-jacket, Chahak disappeared in the lake.
The victims told police that the driver of the boat was driving at a high speed and despite being asked to slow down, he continued with the pace.
The families of Saini and his neighbour had come to Udaipur on Sunday for a vacation.
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I was exploring different methods of gardening when I stumbled across hugelkultur, a method where you stack logs, pile on branches, add leaves and other yard debris and then cover it all with dirt. The idea is that the organic matter breaks down slowly forming humus for the vegetables, and the rotting wood absorbs water, releasing it slowly in times of drought.
A giant tree fell down in our backyard so this put it to good use. And it made a nice "fence" of sorts, somewhat obscuring the road and making it appear as if our yard extending to the field across the street.
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Canvas Gallery Wrap
Eight color inkjet printing on canvas, 1-1/4″ depth. Internal frame built to support the canvas and keep it from sagging over time. Black edging; a portion of the print may bleed onto the sides.
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Framed Canvas Standout
Standouts are canvas prints flush mounted to a 1-1/4" thick frame. Frames add 1-3/4" to the print size listed. For example, an 11"x 14" framed standout will actually measure 12-¾" x 15-¾".
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I tried him on for fits
Cause I need a fall jacket
I was little spoon
A small sip to see if his body fit mine
As I lay in my head, plotting my departure, I pondered why he couldn't be my warmth for a season
Winter is coming and I'm sure to be cold
But the feelings didn't suffice
As my best friend put it
"He's like a North Face with a gray panel and a collar but you're looking for a waterproof Arcteryx"
I said "A Patagonia with breathable armpits, but I'm not picky"
But the latter is a lie because I am picky.
I don't choose who I like.
Sometimes I find the perfect jacket, but I'm not their fall fleece.
Cause cuffing season is a runway for two.
It's not always me, sometimes it's you.
I don't need a fall jacket,
I'm not trying anymore on,
I'm sorry for making you my pawn
It's not nice to try you on, wake up at dawn and decide I want a Patagonia with breathable armpits.
But that's what I did, forgive me I'm still a kid.
The only difference now is I don't want the jacket just cause it's cool, comfort is much more important these days.
{Ode to being warm with love and a good ole fashion breathable winter coat}


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852 Square Feet – indoor area
912 Square Feet – green courtyard area
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Indoor and outdoor space
Kitchen access
Men's and women's handicapped accessible restrooms
$1,300 per 24 hours
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We have been very busy at our house the past few months and I wanted to include you all in on why we have been "running" around like crazy – no pun intended. My wonderful husband Jeff was given the opportunity to run the upcoming Boston Marathon and the way it all happened was nothing short of fate I think.
Some of you might remember that Jeff and I went on a Strength to Strength retreat in November for terrorist attack survivors, bereaved family members, and spouses. I wrote about it here. We made wonderful friendships and had the chance to bond with other survivors, including Lynn and Doug. They are fellow Boston Marathon bombing survivors and Lynn's traumatic brain injury from years past was only made worse by the events of that day. As we got to know these two wonderful people Jeff shared his desire to finish the marathon someday – neither of us thought it would be so soon. As One Fund recipients, Doug and Lynn receive two fundraising bibs each year and they graciously offered one up to Jeff to accomplish his goal.
This all came together so quickly towards the end of last year and Jeff started training. Training for a marathon takes an incredible amount of dedication and for someone who runs his own business, has two young kids, a wife who lives with PTSD, and other volunteer opportunities that he prioritizes it is near impossible. Jeff has been training hard and I am so proud of the effort he has put into this – his final marathon, or so he says.
This was something we talked a lot about and carefully mulled over because we just don't have extra time in our lives but Jeff really wanted to do it and so I 100% supported his decision. It's not just the time it takes away from our family and all the added pressure it places on me, I also had to consider the fact that I will be standing with my treasures waiting for him where the bombs went off. It's unnerving when I think about it. I have been back to that place since and I am still in trauma therapy and working hard every day to heal but still, there are so many factors at play here. There will be thousands of people there, my kids will be with me so I have to keep my cool, if I don't have passes for the bleachers then we will be on that side of the street, and I know my bestie, PTSD, will be right there with me. How will I handle all these things at once? With grace and with God by my side are my only two answers to this question.
Over the holidays my cousin mentioned to me that when she asked him about the marathon he had said that he wasn't going to run it until I was ready to be at the finish line waiting for him again. Just her recalling this conversation made me cry because he never voiced this to me.
So I will be there on April 16th 2018. Five years after the bombs went off. Waiting for my husband to finish this race. It will be such an accomplishment for the two of us and one I hope our kids will never forget witnessing. It makes me feel as if this story of mine is coming full circle – in full bloom.
If you feel called to help Jeff with his fundraising goal and support a fellow Boston Marathon bombing survivor with her continued therapies, please click here. We are also accepting any prayers and good vibes you want to send our way!
To read my reflection on the marathon from Maria Shriver's website last year click here.


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American Icon
At the conclusion of Captain America: Civil War (2016), a FedEx delivery driver appears at the Stark Enterprises headquarters of the Avengers. Knocking on the glass, he asks, "Are you Tony Stank?"
James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Tony Stark's best friend, points to his buddy, and exclaims: "Yes, this is Tony Stank…You're in the right place. Thank you for that!"
The FedEx employee is played by Stan Lee, his 29th cameo in superhero films. The scene ends the movie on a humorous note and, more importantly, demonstrates Lee's place in the Marvel Universe. The package contains a letter from Captain America to Iron Man, turning over leadership of the Avengers to him, but also letting Stark know that he will still show up if the Earth faces peril. Lee's cameo may seem a throwaway, but the moment is central to the plot, and points to how the Marvel Universe unfolds in the future. As Rhodes explains, Lee's character is definitely "in the right place" – at the center of the action.
The cheerful conversation between Stark and Rhodes counterbalances the previous scene in which Rhodey – veteran military hero and War Machine combatant – struggles to walk again after breaking his back in the earlier superhero melee. Despite the dramatic edge, the tone and voice sounds as if Lee wrote the exchange in the early 1960s. Rhodes and Stark trade smirks and jokes, with Rhodes laughing, "Please, table for one for Mr. Stank, preferably by the bathroom." The dialogue is a Lee line, set during a Lee cameo, in Lee's Marvel Universe – his personality imprinted on a grand scale. Lee certainly fulfilled Martin Goodman's early directive – create a bunch of superheroes. No one realized that the order would transform storytelling and American popular culture.
When Stanley Lieber became Stan Lee, he was hiding his real identity behind a pseudonym that he thought protected him from the disdainful scorn of those who looked down on the meaningless work he did in a trivial industry. Lee explained, "Early in my career, before The Fantastic Four, I struggled. I felt I was never going to get anywhere. Even afterward, I was embarrassed to say I wrote comic books for a living. I had a lot of shame about that."[1] He carried that concept – the notion that what he did each day didn't really matter – for decades.
Then, rising from his own anguish (and with goading from wife Joanie), Lee took ownership of who he was and what he might create if he changed his outlook and wrote what he wanted. Then, he turned the ideas over to some of the greatest artists to ever work in comics to create them visually. The Fantastic Four came to life…he birthed The Hulk…and soon Thor dropped down from the heavens. Countless additional characters endowed with otherworldly powers and unfathomable evil joined the early superheroes. Most significantly, Lee created the least likely hero around: a geeky teenager with a boatload of personal problems and whose life changes when a supercharged spider bites him. The Amazing Spider-Man was born.
The Marvel Universe did not begin with Spider-Man, but he was the one fans gravitated to the most – as did Lee. For Lee,
Spider-Man is more than a comic-strip hero. He's a state of mind. He symbolizes the secret dreams, fears, and frustrations that haunt us all. We all have our hidden daydreams, daydreams in which we're stronger, swifter, and braver than we really are – than we can ever hope to be. But, to Spider-Man, such dreams are reality."[2]
Spider-Man sparked a revolution in comic books and storytelling by giving readers a fresh way of viewing superheroes. Finally, they seemed real, with feet of clay, just like people everywhere. Marvel's characters possessed emotional weaknesses. They had to deal with their human emotions, not simply like Superman's vulnerability, which came from magic rocks from a destroyed planet that bad guys stumbled over. In the final frame of his debut in Amazing Fantasy #15, Lee wrote the famous line that Spider-Man becomes: "Aware at last that in this world, with great power there must also come – great responsibility!" The way Spider-Man has since been popularized and immortalized across American culture, this line alone might have forever cemented Lee as an iconic writer.
In short order, Lee created an interlocked network of superheroes and supporting characters that reflected the way people with extraordinary powers might actually live in the real world. Long before people could look back and realize Lee's influence on the broader culture, they had to read the comic books. The genius he brought to the business, which launched the Marvel Age, centered on the way the characters spoke, their feelings, and the convincing issues they faced. The equation seemed almost too simple: if superheroes can be like you, then you can be like a superhero. Readers responded to Lee's ideas and his authorial imprint developed into a central facet of popular culture.
Co-creating the characters and writing the stories with Marvel's gifted artists, inkers, letterers, and colorists, however, did not end the process or Lee's influence. He served other critical functions at Marvel that expanded his role far beyond the creative staff he worked with, including editing the comics, approving the artwork, and keeping the full-time staff and freelancers on task to meet the deadlines the publishing industry demanded. Then, realizing that his duties did not end there, he stumbled into serving as a mouthpiece for Marvel, first in the press, and then barnstorming the nation's (and later the world's) college campuses and public stages. The superhero stories went global and Lee told them again and again to whoever would listen.
On many occasions, Lee wondered when the superhero craze would wear off and he'd be onto another genre, fully expecting the boom-and-bust cycle to continue. From this perspective, the creative aspects of the job were tightly wound to the financial. "If Spider-Man hadn't sold, we'd have forgotten about it," Lee said. "To us they were just scripts. We were making them up, and we'd hope they'd sell, and some sold better than others, so those we kept."[3]
There is no shortage of controversy or crisis in the entertainment industry. Often it seems as if these forces – not talent or success – fuel popular culture. Lee has faced various levels of condemnation for decades. To his critics, many of Lee's actions have seemed inauthentic, centered on his own fame at the expense of others who should have been included in the spotlight's glow. Even now, some antagonists have found his recent work focused mainly on making him money, not creating anything of lasting value. And, as well, the sides are tightly drawn in the pro-Kirby and pro-Ditko camps regarding who actually created the Marvel Universe.
Despite the challenges Marvel faced as an organization, the answer often came back to Spider-Man. The character's enduring popularity saved the day. Lee's willingness to keep the superhero top-of-mind ensured that Marvel also stayed securely on the nation's popular culture radar. In turn, the effort solidified Lee's own place in the cultural pantheon.
While people often credit Lee for his role in gradually turning comic books into a more respected medium and establishing Marvel's place among the world's great brands, he is rarely given enough credit simply as a writer. Just like novelist and filmmakers had always done, it is as if Lee put his hands up into the air and pulled down fistfuls of the national zeitgeist. As a writer, Lee did what all iconic creative people do – he improved on or perfected his craft, thus creating an entirely new style that would have broad impact across the rest of the industry, and then around the globe.
At the time Spider-Man appeared, Lee had already been working in the industry for more than 20 years. By this point, his writing process grew out his fascination with dialogue. He explained, "Whenever I write a story of any sort, I usually recite all the dialogue aloud as I'm writing it…I act it out, with all the emotion and corny emphasis that I can must." What this kind of writing and narration forces is what all great writers understand: "It's got to sound natural."[4] These innovations – focusing on realistic dialogue, speaking directly to the reader, and allowing the reader into the character's thinking via thought bubbles – created the Marvel style that would soon dominate the comic book industry and then gradually extend to film, television, literature, and other forms of storytelling.
Generations of artists, writers, actors, and other creative types have been inspired, moved, or encouraged by the universe Lee voiced and birthed. While he did not invent the imperfect hero (one could argue that such heroes had been around since Homer's time and even before), Lee delivered the message to a generation of readers hungry for something new. The nerd-to-hero storyline seems like it must have sprung from the earth fully formed, Lee gave readers a new way of looking at what it meant to be a hero and spun the notion of who might be heroic in a way that spoke to the rapidly expanding number of comic book buyers. Spider-Man's popularity revealed the attraction to the idea of a tainted hero, but at the same time, the character hit the newsstands at the perfect time, ranging from the growing Baby Boomer generation to the optimism of John F. Kennedy's Camelot, this confluence of events resulting in a second golden age for comic books. Fans gobbled up his superheroes with their dimes, nickels, and quarters.
Regardless of the opinions of nay-sayers, there is something heroic in Lee himself. Like others at the apex of American popular culture, Lee transformed his industry, which then had much broader implications. Lee became Marvel madman, mouthpiece, and all-around maestro – the face of comic books for six decades. The man who wanted to pen the Great American Novel did so much more. Without question, Lee became one of the most important creative icons in contemporary American history.
This essay is drawn from my 2017 book, Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel, published by Rowman & Littlefield
Images courtesy of Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
[1] Lee, interview by Hochman.
[2] Memo, Marvel Comics Group – Manuscript Information, 1974, Box 6, Folder 8, Stan Lee Papers, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
[3] Stan Lee, interview by Jeff McLaughlin, "An Afternoon with Stan Lee," 2005, in Stan Lee Conversations, ed. Jeff McLaughlin (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2007), 211.
[4] Lee and Mair, 135.


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The Ongoing Collapse of the Gitmo Military Commissions
OK. I'm not proud, but I stole this whole post from The Signs of the Times.
But...you need to read it.
Anyone who has kept half an eye on the proceedings at the Military Commissions in Guantánamo -- the unique system of trials for "terror suspects" that was conceived in the wake of the 9/11 attacks by Vice President Dick Cheney and his close advisers -- will be aware that their progress has been faltering at best. After six and a half years, in which they have been ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, derailed by their own military judges, relentlessly savaged by their own military defense lawyers, and condemned as politically motivated by their own former chief prosecutor, they have only secured one contentious result: a plea bargain negotiated by the Australian David Hicks, who admitted to providing "material support for terrorism," and dropped his well-chronicled claims of torture and abuse by US forces, in order to secure his return to Australia to serve out the remainder of a meager nine-month sentence last March. In the last few weeks, however, Cheney's dream has been souring at an even more alarming rate than usual. Following boycotts of pre-trial hearings in March and April by three prisoners -- Mohamed Jawad, Ahmed al-Darbi and Ibrahim al-Qosi -- the latest appearance by Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni who worked as a driver for Osama bin Laden, spread the words "boycott" and "Guantánamo" around the world.
This, my friends, is the US government in action. So kewl.
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Hotels Near Lough Derg
Treacys West County Hotel in Ennis is the perfect base for anyone looking to explore all of Clare's top attractions. Stay at Treacys West County and relax and unwind in any of our newly refurbished rooms before and after you explore everything that the County of Clare has to offer. Our hotel's perfect location in Ennis makes it easy for our guests to check out the popular attraction – Lough Derg.
Lough Derg is a freshwater lake in the Shannon River Basin and is the third biggest freshwater lake in the island of Ireland. Lough Derg is a long and narrow lake that has shores in Clare, Galway and Tipperary. It has 179km of shoreline stretching over 40km from Portumna at it's Northern tip to Killaloe and Ballina in the south. The lake is also over 12km at it's widest point.
Many activities take place at Lough Derg such as canoeing, kayaking, waterskiing, surfing and aqua diving while it is also a popular angling destination. There are also walking trailing, cycling trails and mountain bike trails close to Lough Derg. There are over 90 heritage and cultural sites close to Lough Derg thanks to the lake's long history. In the early medieval times, Lough Derg was an important part of highway from the Atlantic Ocean to the Irish Midlands. Many of the historic attractions near Lough Derg are associated with Brian Boru who was once the high king of Ireland who ruled from Killaloe between 1002 and 1014. Attractions to visit near Lough Derg are the Brian Boru Heritage Centre, East Clare Heritage Centre, Holy Island, Portumna Castle and Nenagh Castle.
The towns along Lough Derg also offer a great range of restaurants, cafes, pubs and entertainment so you will never be too far from food and enterntainment.
Find out more about Lough Derg by visiting the official site.
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ROCHESTER — The board of directors of the Rochester Opera House is pleased to announce the election of three new board members, who have each donated dozens of volunteer hours to assist in operations and restoration during the past three years.
Melanie Bunker CPA and Manager with Cummings, Lamont & McNamee, P.A. in Rochester has donated dozens of hours to ROH preparing annual tax returns and overseeing financials with bookkeeper Fawn Choate. Bunker has accepted the position as board treasurer. Bunker believes, "this is one-of-a-kind opera house with the last moving floor in the United States and it is our obligation to restore and share it with the public. The Rochester Opera House brings the arts into the community and has a significant impact on the local economy." Managing Director Susan Page adds, "We are thrilled that someone with Melanie's expertise has joined the ROH Board as we move forward to secure the future sustainability of Rochester's historic cultural arts venue. Bunker, born and raised in the Seacoast area, resides in Wells, Maine, with her husband and two children.
Steve Dore, NPR Corporate Relations Representative, returns to the ROH Board after serving in many capacities during the past 15 years. He has been involved in marketing, advertising, securing show sponsorships and is the "voice" that welcomes patrons to each performance. When ROH re-opened in 1997, Dore helped to bring in the first two shows, The Kingston Trio and Up with People.
Dore expresses the reason for his longtime service and wish to rejoin the Board: "Once you get involved in the Opera House, it becomes a passion. It is a unique venue with a rich heritage that should always be treasured. I am grateful to those, who have poured so much of themselves into the monumental effort of preserving this integral part of Rochester's history. It is heartwarming to see the City and the region embracing those efforts. I look forward to again serving on the board as we work together to secure the future of this magnificent asset." Susan Page is grateful to Dore, who answered her call of help three years ago, "Without hesitation, Steve said 'yes' when I asked him to aid us with the enormous task of keeping the doors open, while rebuilding operations." Dore is a familiar face and "voice" in the community. He has a lifetime of volunteer service, including the Rochester Rotary Club, the Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce and NH Public TV. Dore resides in Rochester with his wife, Cindy.
Bill Powers, owner of Bill Powers Painting in Rochester, moved from Florida to Rochester nine years ago. He immediately embraced his new community, volunteering many hours to paint the Bandstand on the Common. Powers then volunteered his painting skills to retouch the interior woodwork at the Rochester Opera House. Powers feels that "it is an honor to help keep this beautiful theater open for future generations. It is so great to have entertainment right in town, especially for children to enjoy." Page says, "Bill is an enthusiastic young guy and we are so pleased that he has joined our board." Powers resides in Rochester with his wife, Jen, and two young daughters.
Three named to Opera House board
ROCHESTER — The board of directors of the Rochester Opera House is pleased to announce the election of three new board members, who have each donated dozens of volunteer hours to assist in operations and restoration during the past three years.


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Meet Information
2018 Danny Brown Invitational Presented by Bishop John J. Snyder High School invites you to the 9th Annual Danny Brown InvitationalTrack and Field Meet on February 23rd, 2018.
For those that dont know, Danny was a long timetrack coach in the area at Bishop Kenny High School and also Washington state, and left alegacy here at Snyder. It is because of Danny we have such a nice facility. The track complex is a newly resurfaced, eight lane rubberized track, with all of the field events within the track offering the opportunity to view all the events from the stands. The pole vault system is a new Richey Athletics pit that exceeds high school and college safety standards.
Coach Nathan Stanley will serve as meet director.
Concessions and restroom facilities are available on site. The meet will be team scored.
We will offer Consolation 800 & 1600 races that will not be scored but will be timed will take place earlier in the day(Please see time schedule). Those two races will consist of the runners that did not make the top 16 verified marks for the finals to be run in the afternoon. We will go up to 24 runners in the 1600 if there are competitive entries. Entry is still required for the 800 & 1600 consolation race. Distance runners not seeded in the top 24 for the 3200 can run in the mixed race following the boys 4x800. This race does not require online entry and will have a running clock.
Entries for the FINALS portion of the meet are limited to: 3 athletes per event, 1 Team per Relay.The meet will be timed by Half-Mile Timing using the FinishLynx (F.A.T.) Timing System, and will also include their new video board for immediate live results. Live results will also be available throughout the meet at www.halfmiletiming.com.
Team champion, Runner-up, and Outstanding Individual Performer trophies will be awarded.The meet will feature prelims and finals for all events. First, second and third place in each event will receive medals; fourth through eighth will receive ribbons. The top eight places will be called to the awards tent at the conclusion of their event to receive their awards, with the top three places being announced over the PA and on the medal stand.
There will be a Coaches & Officials Hospitality tent provided by Moes Southwest Grill during the intermission between prelims and finals.Entries must be entered via www.flrunners.com no later than 11:59pm, Tuesday, February 20th, 2018. Please contact Coach Nathan Stanley firstname.lastname@example.com for password.
Heat sheets will be posted as soon as the last addition is made. A late fee of $25 will be assessed for re-opening registration on www.flrunners.comEntry fee is $50/team or $100/school (b/g). If you have less than 5 athletes, $10/athlete. Please enclose entry fee with Meet Name. Mail or bring payment to the meet. Make checks payable to: Bishop Snyder High Schoolattn: Danny Brown Invitational 5001 Samaritan Way Jacksonville, FL 32210
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8 Best Tips to Designing Perfect Product Detail Page for Your eCommerce Website in 2019
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On the 18th May 2018, Zoë's Place will be hosting their annual Kings & Queens Ball at Coombe Abbey Hotel in Warwickshire.
Our Fig Offices in Coventry are happy to announce sponsorship of the lavish, black tie event with Zoë's Place Coventry being their chosen charity.
During the event you will be greeted by champagne on arrival, a 3 course meal and an event packed with entertainment including fun, auctions and much more. John Dalziel aka JD, Radio Presenter on Free Radio Breakfast Show will be your host for the evening.
The evening is set to raise money for the charity, providing palliative, respite and end of life care to babies and infants through to 5 year olds suffering from life-limiting or life threatening conditions.
To find out how you can attend, sponsor or donate, Click Here


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We've all got one on our lists—that chronic wanderluster who seems to be constantly heading off on their next adventure, luggage and passport in tow. Travelers can be tricky people to buy gifts for! They tend to be on the move more often than not, and those airline bag restrictions mean they need to be picky about what goes into their suitcase.
Choosing the perfect present for the globetrotter in your life is a challenge, to say the least.
Luckily for you, we've put together the ultimate travel gift list—30 clever gift ideas to suit every budget and type of traveler, from the minimalist nomad to the first class travelista. Trust us, these are the next best thing to an actual plane ticket.
Disclosure: A few of the links below are affiliate links, and at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you decide to make a purchase. You know I'll only recommend these products and subscriptions because I use them myself and love them. But, please only purchase the product if you feel it will make for a great gift for yourself or someone else. There are many options out there, these are just the ones I use personally.
Stocking stuffers (under $10)
Sephora's Beauty on the Fly Bag
Cute, handy, and the exact right size for all of your carry-on essentials. This sturdy plastic bag is transparent, reusable, easy to clean, and features a zippered top for quick access to your products. At only $4.95, it's a no-brainer!
The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
"A unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor," Eric Weiner's memoir takes readers along on his round-the-world quest to find the happiest places on earth (and to figure out just what makes the people there so damn happy). A fun, entertaining read that's sure to appeal to fans of introspective travel books and philosophical musing.
Real-talk time—everybody poops. But no one wants to be the smelly culprit slinking out of the bathroom in a cloud of shame. Poo-Pourri is a handy little scented spray designed to deal with any bathroom unpleasantness ahead of the fact. Just a few spritzes in the toilet before you go and you're golden! A serious live-saver on the plane.
Birchbox is monthly beauty subscription box and the perfect gift for the girl who spends all her time watching YouTube makeup tutorials. Each box contains 5 beauty samples tailored specifically to the recipient and can be anything from skincare to makeup to perfume. Not only is it fun to try new products each month, but the sample sizes they send are totally made for travel!
Thoughtful and thrifty (under $25)
Wondering if your liquids will make it past security in your carry-on is a stress every traveler is familiar with. Thankfully, Lush's shampoo bars are here to help! These solid pucks of hair-cleansing magic are lightweight, carry-on-safe, and made with natural ingredients (most are vegan!). Best of all, they suds up like a dream and smell absolutely divine.
Travel + Leisure Magazine Subscription
$12 for 1 year
Travel + Leisure is a one-stop resource for all things travel, from destination guides and hotel reviews to tips and exclusive deals. Their print magazine is packed with gorgeous photos and enough travel inspo to last a lifetime—gift your favourite traveler with a 1-year subscription for just $12.
If there's one thing every traveler needs, it's a good water bottle. Clunky plastic and metal bottles can be annoying to carry, which is why Nomader's space-saving foldable design is so awesome. The bottle's flexible, shatterproof silicone is seriously durable—you can fill it with hot or cold drinks, freeze it, and even run it through the dishwasher. BPA-free, leak-proof, and backed by a lifetime warranty, this is basically the king of all water bottles.
Nothing is worse than being stuck on a plane for 15 hours in uncomfortable shoes. Remedy that with FitKicks, an innovative footwear brand that blends comfort, functionality, and style. FitKicks' soft, stretchy material and easy on-off design make them the perfect addition to your airport outfit.
Your ticket may not say "first class" but that doesn't mean you can't act like it does. These carry on cocktail kits are both adorable (tiny bottles! Mini mixing spoons!) and classy as hell. The kits come in a variety of classic flavors and each contains everything you need (minus the alcohol) to mix up two cocktails at 30,000 feet. Bottoms up!
Pottery Barn Wireless Beanie Bluetooth Hat
Earbuds are a must on the plane, but they can be a bit uncomfortable to sleep in when your head is mushed into a crappy travel pillow against the window. This wireless Bluetooth beanie is a smart solution, keeping your head warm and your music on without any tangled wires or sore ears. Perfect for when you're out and about on those chilly winter days, too!
Baller on a budget (under $50)
When you're in a strange country, your phone is your map, camera, guidebook, dictionary, and emergency lifeline all in one. Having a portable charger on hand (especially one that's lightweight!) is crucial. The Anker PowerCore 1000 is one of the best in the business—durable, fast-charging, compact, and compatible with both Apple and Android phones.
For those who spend their days waiting at the gate for the next flight, these luggage tags are changing the game. Not only do they look great and help you make a statement with your carry-on, you can use them to charge all your devices. Take charge with every flight, and at your destination, remove the tag and take it with you on your daily adventures!
Try The World Subscription Box
From $39/month
This is one for the armchair explorers. Try The World's monthly subscription box delivers a curated collection of international goodies to your doorstep each month, so you can travel the world from your own kitchen. Each box focuses on a different country and includes ingredients, drinks, and snacks to help you create an authentic culinary experience at home.
Frequent fliers who have trouble getting some shuteye on the plane will love this luxurious silk eye mask from SLIP. The mask's high-grade mulberry silk ensures it won't tug or pull at the delicate skin around your eyes and its thickness effectively blocks out light so you can easily drift off to sleep. Unlike cotton, silk doesn't suck the moisture out of your skin, which helps guard against that dreaded airplane dryness.
CALPAK Packing Cubes (5-piece set)
Packing cubes are the epitome of the perfect travel gift—they take up no space in a suitcase (in fact, they actually save you space), help you stay organized on the road, and make digging through your bag to find things less of a chore. You can even take them out of your suitcase and use them in the drawers at your hotel, if you want! It's like unpacking without the hassle of actually unpacking. These CALPAK 5-piece sets come in a bunch of sweet prints, so you can feel stylish and organized. Win-win!
Elevenplus Bottle Humidifier Mini
Air-conditioned hotel rooms can be dry as the desert, causing all sorts of annoyances from sore throats and static to dull skin and hair. This chic little humidifier is tiny but powerful, and a godsend while you're abroad. It's powered by USB, meaning you can plug it into your laptop or a compatible adapter and soak up that sweet, sweet moisture to your heart's content. You can even use it on the flight for a quick hit of humidity on the go!
Würkin Stiffs Silicone Dopp Bag
A modern twist on the traditional leather dopp kit, this silicone version is made to handle anything you throw at it. It's leak-resistant inside and out, so if anything explodes during a flight, you won't find it all over your clothes when you open your suitcase. The soft silicone material makes it a breeze to clean, and gives the kit a nice weight and texture.
More nice than naughty (under $100)
From $55.00
Fossil is known for its quality accessories and these leather passport cases are no exception. Their design is simple and classic, and they're lined with a special material to help protect the RFID chips in your cards from malicious scanning. With a variety of sleek, stylish looks to choose from and the option to personalize when you buy, these would make a great gift for any jet-setter.
TOMS Vegan Black Washed Canvas Women's Deconstructed Cupsole Alpargatas
Sightseeing is a blast but all that walking can leave your feet feeling achy by the end of the day—a good pair of shoes can help with that. The best travel shoes are comfy, breathable, easy to slip on and off, and neutral enough to go with almost any outfit. These canvas alpargatas from TOMS fit the bill nicely.
We try to look after our phones but when you're hopping from country to country, anything can happen. Help your clumsy traveler protect their precious baby from impact, water, dirt, and snow with this seriously tough smartphone case from LifeProof. (All that's left to do is pray they don't lose it.)
"OMG, you shouldn't have!" gifts (under $200)
A quality, well-designed backpack is a travel must, especially if you carry your laptop with you. Timbuk2's Uptown bag is the perfect carry-on for business babes and digital nomads, with lots of little pockets to hold your gadgets, a large main compartment for clothes and essentials, and a snug internal sleeve to keep your laptop safe. Plus, it opens up to lay flat, making airport security a breeze!
Books are lovely but they take up a whole lot of room in a suitcase, which is why e-readers are a traveler's best friend. Kindle Paperwhite is a tried-and-true favorite with a high resolution display, built-in reading light, and a battery that can last a whole month on a single charge. Gift one to your traveling bookworm buddy and watch them get all starry-eyed at the thought of being able to carry 1,000 books around at the same time.
Lululemon All Day Tote Mini (Black)
Lululemon is synonymous with trendy, minimalist athleisure wear and this tote stays true to form. Chic and versatile, you can carry this like a handbag or wear it cross-body with the long strap. It's size is just right for an all-day bag—big enough to stuff in a light sweater and water bottle before heading out to explore, but not so big that it's a pain to carry.
FUGOO Style-S Waterproof Speaker
Bring the noise wherever you go with FUGOO's rugged Bluetooth speaker. The STYLE-S delivers big, bold sound in a stylish, lightweight package. It's durable canvas-style fabric is shockproof, mudproof, and waterproof, which makes it ideal for music-loving adventurers who like their parties outdoors. With several optional mounts to choose from, this speaker can go anywhere you can.
Fashionable fliers and lovers of all things cozy will be ecstatic to receive this premium travel kit from Parachute. Consisting of an eye mask and a blanket bundled into a handy carrying case, this high-quality kit is made from extra fine merino wool for a luxurious, buttery feel and breathable warmth.
From $175
These are not your grandma's ballet flats. Tieks has reinvented the flat and made them stylish, durable, foldable, and—most importantly—comfortable. Each shoe is made from premium Italian leather and constructed with a unique cushioned split-sole that allows them to be folded in half and easily stuffed into a purse or suitcase. Perfect for women on the go!
For the "money is no object" crowd ($300+)
Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones II
Crying babies? Snoring seatmate? These airplane annoyances are no match for Bose's wireless noise-cancelling headphones. Engineered for style and comfort, these headphones are top-of-the-line, featuring a built-in Google Assistant who can play your music, receive texts, and answer your questions completely hands-free. Just put 'em on and allow the outside world to melt away.
Henri Bendel West 57th Weekend Duffle
( This product is no longer available)
This Henri Bendel duffle bag is the ideal carry-on for travelers who enjoy a little luxury. Made with 100% Saffiano leather and lined with satin, this bag is seriously pretty. Exterior and interior pockets provide space to store all your little necessities and the full zip closure with lock and key keeps everything secure. For that extra special touch, you can even have the bag monogrammed with your favourite traveler's initials.
GoPro has been the camera of choice for active and adventurous travelers for years, and the new HERO6 model is the best yet. With its brand-new GP1 chip, the HERO6 Black delivers top quality photos and video. It's waterproof up to 33 feet and features hands-free voice control, superior stabilization, and slo-mo and night photo capabilities. With crazy good specs and portable appeal, the GoPro HERO6 Black is the perfect travel companion for anyone seeking a little adventure.


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Learning Spanish is a journey – it is definitely not a race, nor is it done solo! As part of my current Spanish learning ´viaje´ (journey) at Expanish Spanish School in Buenos Aires, Argentina , I have discovered a variety of tools that help make learning Spanish that little bit easier. Here are my top 10 useful tools to help you learn Spanish. And the great news is, almost all of them are free!
1) El diccionario – your dictionary a.k.a. your new best friend!! Don´t worry if you are particular about your friends – they come in so many variations. There is the petit "pocket" dictionary that perfectly slips into your purse or back pocket or the trusty Big Bertha kind that you will break your back carrying to school but has every word that was ever invented and vale la pena (it´s worth it)! Maybe you are more traditional and opt for the classic – not too big, not too small… but just right. But for those more tech savvy, there´s an app for that too! The one I love is Collins Pro Spanish-English Translation Dictionary. Or, if you are someone who thinks books are objects of the dark ages, online dictionary Word Reference is very popular in the Expanish office!
2) Flashcards – Yes the same tool you used to memorize your times tables when you were 8, will come in handy memorizing and expanding your new Spanish vocabulary. You can make your own, buy pre-made cards like Spanish Grammar SparkNotes Study Cards $10, download Flashcard Touch app for your phone or simply visit the website www.flashcardexchange.com, which lets you print out flashcards from an existing database. The wonders of technology!
3) El Diario (the newspaper) – not only will you learn about current events, but will increase your vocabulary so you can join in the discussion or debates with local porteños. Visit sites like www.lanacion.com to get your up-to-date news online, celebrity gossip or just to check out your daily horoscope!
4) Change your facebook or computer settings to Spanish! – Yes this may be a little daring, but you know what "me gusta" o "comentar" means. You probably don´t even read the words anymore after spending countless hours online! Give it a shot! (But I would remember how to undo if necessary!)
5) New words every day – Open up your inbox everyday to a new word! Sign up at spanish-word-a-day.com to receive daily emails with Spanish words, phrases, and sayings. This has to be one of the easiest ways to get vocabulary delivered to you!
6) Watch movies with the Spanish subtitles on! – You´ll be amazed at how quickly you will learn new expressions that do not directly translate. Remember to have a pen and paper close by! (Note, Expanish hosts free weekly Spanish Cinema Club where you can watch Spanish language films, with Spanish subtitles and then discuss the film in Spanish afterwards.)
7) Google Translate – TGFG or thank goodness for Google! They never seem to let us down in our search for more information, including www.translate.google.com. I mean what can Google not do?! Although Google translate is improving all the time, its definitely not fool proof… but is a great tool when used in moderation!
8) Online Verb Conjugator – conjugations have your mind muddled?! Have no fear – there is a website that can help! www.123teachme.com/spanish_verb_conjugation Type in any verb for a full conjugation chart. No longer will irregular verbs like poner, traer, or saber haunt you!
9) Intercambios – The best way to advance is by putting it to the test and interacting with native speakers. Whether you are living in a homestay, make friends in a bar, or sign up for a conversation exchange, the best tool is practicing. You can sign up a Spanish penpal, talk through skype, or meet someone in your own city. The more you put yourself out there, the better return you will receive.
10) Spanish Jargon Checker – Still trying to decipher the different expressions between Mexico, Spain, and Argentina? Well www.jergasdehablahispana.org/ can help! You choose the country and then research the word´s meaning. Spanish is always evolving and each country has it´s own jargon, but now you can understand too!


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