Hi Rene,
I appreciate your feedback.
So ultimately what I did was reinstall all my software and deleted all my info off my site and domain settings in blue host. What I then figured out today was the problem was occurring simply because I had a “custom” permalink setting that was making all my articles be read from the /blog/ permalink. I simply changed this settings to “post name” permalink and everything was fixed. I feel so stupid, but I appreciate your feedback. I’m a newbie but this was a valuable lesson that I learned.
Thank you so much for your support.