Showing posts with label theme reveal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theme reveal. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2016

A-Z Blog Challenge Theme Reveal



We're a few days away from the beginning of the A-Z Blog Challenge, and today is the big theme reveal. I've never used a theme before, but this time I'm going to give it a whirl. So the theme is...

The Music of My Life.

Music has always played a big part in my life. Memories of many of my major (and minor) life events are marked by songs. For the twenty-six days of the A-Z Blog Challenge, I will feature songs that corresponded with some life events from the last three decades of my life. I'll begin at age ten and work my way through. I'm really excited about this, and I hope it will be a walk down memory lane for some of you too.

Since I won't be venturing back into the 70s much, I'll leave you with one from the year I was born.

Although I have no memories from this time of my life (my birth), some twenty-plus years later I was on a London tube one night riding from a central point of the city to my shared flat in Bayswater. A very drunk man staggered onto the rail car just before the doors closed. Within seconds of leaving the station, he began to sing the first verse of "The Day the Music Died (Miss American Pie)". By the time he reached the chorus, everyone in the rail car was singing along--including me.

When we reached Bayswater station, we all went our separate ways, still singing Don MacLean's legendary song.



It's not too late to sign up! http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/

Friday, March 18, 2016

April and A-Z Blog Challenge 2016

For the past two years, I have participated in the A-Z Blog Challenge. I wasn't going to do it this year since I am swamped with work, writing, and editing, but I decided to keep up with the tradition and take the plunge.

So once again this year I am participating in the A-Z Blog Challenge. For those who don't know, the challenge consists of daily blogging alongside over a thousand other bloggers covering all manner of topics from a to z. This is only for the month of April and corresponds with 26 of the 30 days (no blogging on Sundays). Each day, bloggers write on a topic that begins with the letter of the alphabet (A is for appetite, B is for Brooklyn, etc.).

It's a lot of fun, and you meet fellow bloggers, writers, and all-around great folks!

In years past, my topics have been quite random, but this time I've decided to take on a theme. The big reveal for this year's theme will take place on March 21st, so stop by then to see what I will be busy writing about in April.

In the meantime, sign up for the 2016 A-Z Blog Challenge or just check out the extensive list of this year's participants (click on the badge to visit the site).