A2Z 2025 — Reflections

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I already said quite a bit in a note on my Z entry, so this will be brief.  I think I had more fun this year than other years because of my own attitude towards it.  Instead of going full blown workaholic on putting the posts together, I chose something I already had a lot of pictures for that needed minimal captions for.  It made it easier and more enjoyable to put the posts together.  I already had the colored letters from the Celtic Alphabet book by Cari Buziak from other A2Zs so that was easy.

This year was a little different on how many blogs I visited.  Instead of trying to visit over a hundred like in other years, I looked down the master list and chose about 50 from there and cut and pasted them into my own spreadsheet.  Then it was easy to just click on their blog addresses and visit.  Along the way they were culled for one reason or another (they stopped participating, subject not interesting, did not visit my blog, etc.) and I ended up with the list I gave links to in my Z post.

I loved the visits and the conversations on my posts this A2Z.  I got gardening tips and learned a lot.  I got some fabulous recipes on my sQuash post.   The compliments were very much appreciated.

Thank you to all of the people who participated in the A2Z 2025 Challenge and a special thank you to the people who organize and maintain the challenge:

A to Z Team [2025]

Arlee Bird (founder)
👨 he/him @
Tossing it Out

J Lenni Dorner (captain)
👨 he/him or 🧑🏽 they/them @
Blog of Author J Lenni Dorner

Zalka Csenge Virág
👩 she/her @
The Multicolored Diary

John Holton @
The Sound of One Hand Typing

Jayden R Vincente (spreadsheets)
👩 she/her @
J R Vincente Erotica Writer

Ronel Janse van Vuuren(graphics)
👩 she/her @
Ronel the Mythmaker

21 Comments Add yours

  1. Sadje's avatar Sadje says:

    I could sense your lighthearted approach to this year’s challenge. I enjoyed your posts my friend

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    1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

      Sadje, thank you very much. I enjoyed reading yours that I saw, as you gave good advice.

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      1. Sadje's avatar Sadje says:

        You’re most welcome dear friend. Thanks for visiting every day

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  2. Unknown's avatar Anonymous says:

    It was fun, wasn’t it? @samanthabwriter from Balancing Act

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    1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

      Heck yes! :)

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  3. Badfinger (Max)'s avatar Badfinger (Max) says:

    That was a cool way of doing it.

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    1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

      Would you ever consider participating in A2Z? It can be on any theme of your choice.

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      1. Badfinger (Max)'s avatar Badfinger (Max) says:

        Yes I would…it’s in April so yea I would do that. Hmmm…maybe Beatle songs.

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        1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

          Yeah Yeah Yeah

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  4. anne44a5f682044's avatar anne44a5f682044 says:

    Yeah, I definitely have a tendency to make it into a full-time job if I’m not careful, so congratulations to you for keeping it fun.

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    1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

      As my mom always said, “to each their own.”

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  5. It’s a delight to hear you especially enjoyed yourself this year. It’s great to find the boundaries that work best for you. I certainly had fun visiting your garden.

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  6. Frewin55's avatar Frewin55 says:

    “full blown workaholic” I think I need to learn that one Li – I counted 169 photos across my 26 posts – they all needed resizing at the least and that’s before writing! Poetry went out the window for 6 weeks – still – such fun! I will be catching up with yours now the madness is over…

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    1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

      Andrew, I know about having to resize every image. I did find out how to keep images the same size on posts. Put all of the settings for small, medium, and large on 700×700. I will be on a blogging hiatus starting tomorrow and going through June, except for 2 dVerse hostings. See you there and/or when I get back in July!

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  7. Ronel Janse van Vuuren's avatar Ronel Janse van Vuuren says:

    Sounds like you had a good time :-)

    Ronel visiting for <a href="Ronel visiting for A-Z Challenge Reflections for A to Z Blogging Challenge 2025

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    1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

      I sure did :)

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  8. josna's avatar josna says:

    Lisa, your energy amazes me! I liked your ornamental initials. loved your personal approach to this challenge–with plants in your own garden, and was honored that you not only included my challenge theme on the short list of blogs that you visited, but also shared one of my posts on your own blog. I’m very glad to have “met” you and to know of Tao Talk, which I know I will continue to visit.

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    1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

      Josna, I feel the same about your blog. Will continue to visit you once I’m back to blogging again in July. Thank you so much for the kind words.

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  9. Fatima's avatar Fatima says:

    I loved reading your posts for A to Z challenge, Lisa. It was a fun challenge. Thank you so much for being so appreciative about my posts too. That really means a lot. Hope you keep posting about beautiful things that you do.

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    1. Lisa or Li's avatar Lisa or Li says:

      Fatima, thank you very much. When I get back from my break, in July, I plan on it <3

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