A-Z Challenge and Enter the Haggis

Y'all doing the A-Z Blogging challenge this year?

This will be my third time around, I think. Maybe fourth? Whoa. I've been blogging for a long time...Anyway. There are two main reasons I love the A-Z challenge. First, having the letter restriction actually makes blogging easier for me. Instead of it being this nebulous I-can-blog-about-anything thing, going with the letter for the day helps me think of ideas.

The second reason, and the most important, is the sense of community. The blogosphere has always been a lovely, intelligent, helpful, welcoming community, but particularly in the last year or so there's been this general sense that it is shrinking, that it is not what it used to be. The A-Z Challenge is a good reminder that that isn't the point. That blogging is blogging, and still a good way to meet people and learn things and be in a group with the same ambitions and interests as you.

So yeah. You've still got a week to decide and sign up.

With that, I'll leave you with my favorite song for the week. I've realized I listen to a lot of slow, melodic music, and its nice to find such awesome happy perky music. So to perk up your Monday, I give you Enter the Haggis :)