Welcome to my A to Z Challenge theme reveal post. It is wonderful to participate for the sixth consecutive year. The A to Z Challenge involves posting every day in April, except Sundays. 1 April starts with the letter A, and son on until the letter Z. Didn’t really have took…
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There you go! I actually wrote my A to Z Challenge theme reveal post today in a waiting room. Yes, there were websites – with spiders – and we enjoyed watching them go about their job! Now, the transcript of those handwritten notes: Little did I think I would be writing my…
To theme or not to theme? I am not even sure if that is the question at this point. But I am very excited about the April A to Z Challenge 2015 and thought I’d be crazy not to join the theme reveal Blogfest party! I confess though, there was a…
The frenzy is on for the upcoming A to Z Challenge in April. I know I look forward to it. Sign ups started several weeks ago. You can sign up here. This year, I signed up with three blogs. First year, one blog. Second year two blogs. Third year – this…
If I thought the A to Z Challenge was amazing last year, then it was even more so, this year. Here’s why. I bravely signed up with two blogs – On this one, I set out to collect smiles. On my health blog, my theme was living with type 2 diabetes…
Z for Zeigarnik Effect on Day 26 of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Sniff Sniff! The Zeigarnik Effect describes the tendency to finish a task once started. In the 1920s, Russian industrial psychologist and psychiatrist Bluma Wulfovna Zeigarnik (1900-1988) who established the discipline of pscyhopathology, was sitting at a…
Yardsticks Yes, setting standards for ourselves to measure up to. And the measures we use to judge others. I remember, from a very early age, I had a tendency to want to do things just right. No half-measures. As I grew older, I became flexible, but not so much that I…