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2016 A through Z Blogger’s Challenge What is the A to Z Challenge? Thousands of bloggers from various walks of life with multiple areas of interest, come together during the month of April and challenge themselves to blog. The blogging is done 6 days a week on various topics. The unifying theme is that the posts must all be on the same alphabetic letter, going from the letter “A” on April 1 st and ending with “Z” on April 30 th . Bloggers are challenged to not only post, but to read the posts of others, and leave comments. This challenge started around 2010, and is the brainchild of Arlee Bird, author of the Tossing it Out blog. You can learn more by checking out Arlee’s blog. Thanks to the organizers, also called ninja minions, because without their help, who knows what would happen. You can find their names and websites/blogs, along with a more official description of the  A to Z Challenge  here. About my 2016 Challenge Theme: Creative Block Hacks On...

Yes is such an affirming word and it does appear to be helped along in that area by the "!". Last year on this day, I wrote a post about Saying No to Being a Yes Woman . I was in a different place, struggling to let my authentic voice breathe. This year I'm in a totally different mind frame. I'm contradicting myself, by asking you to say "Yes." It's okay to let the "yes" be; hang it out, in its perfect form and shape as a concept and a word. Say: Yes to increasing your vocabulary Yes to widening your ways of expressing yourself through that vocabulary Yes to expression of the affirmative Yes to the possibilities of language and the many forms of punctuation to frames it Perhaps all this agreeableness is a result of the fact that I'm writing and blogging more. Through those expressive activities my abilities to embrace, challenge, re-frame, and most of all express, is very affirmative. So, it's Hump Day. For wha...