A - Z Blogging Challenge 2023 - Theme Reveal

Welcome to the 2023 A-Z Blogging Challenge Theme Reveal post!

We'll be posting ever weekday throughout the month of April. There is going to be a blog post for each and every of the 26 letters of the alphabet - yes, even the hard ones - which makes this a daily job, except Sundays.

It's going to be my ninth time around. Wow, time is flying while you're having fun!

In 2015 I was talking about aspects of the life of a (part-time) working Mom, there wasn't even much hockey in the picture yet. There were, however, balancing acts, commutes, caffeine, guilty feelings and overwhelm, just to name a few.

In 2016 I was invited to a wedding at the West coast, and it came at pretty short-notice, so for a moment I worried about the challenge. The next second I decided this was genius, my theme was going to be on the go, and voilà, A is for Arrival in Los Angeles, P is for Pike Place Market and Z is for when I got back to Zurich.

In 2017 I had ambitious goals of losing 30 pounds and getting into shape, and I did! From Avocado Brownies till Zumba, I just about covered everything.

The following year, 2018, I took you on a journey, kind of a trip around the world, even. 26 cities or national parks I have visited and loved! I used S for Sydney, so I had to squeeze in San Francisco at O is for Oakland ;-)

In 2019 I was talking about all things justice system! 

Prosecution and defense, forensics and polygraph tests - I tried to cover it all.

In 2020 I was talking about Switzerland, my quadrilingual home country. I told you what an alpine ascent is, what cheese varieties go into a Swiss Fondue, and more importantly how the holes get into the Emmentaler. Also you got to learn about International Organizations (think UN, WHO, Red Cross) in Switzerland. I threw in some sightseeing and yodelling of course.

In 2021 I used sayings, idioms, proverbs and quotes and made them come to life. So we picked apples - the ones that didn't fall far from the Tree and swam with the Sharks and confirmed that Travel broadened our Minds.

In 2022 I took you guys on a coffee tour. We talked about roasting and preparing all kinds of Coffee Types, some of which may have been a little controversial, such as Kopi Luwak, aka cat poop coffee ;-)

So it's 2023! What are we going to do this year? 

Without giving too much away in advance, I will share my mishaps with you, and you'll get to laugh with me, because looking back, it's easy to laugh at things that went wrong, am I right? 

I've been on the road quite a lot, so expect to read about canceled planes, lost bags and missed exits, you get the picture. The good news is, I lived to tell, so in one way or another I managed to handle these situations somewhat gracefully. 

There's more good news. 

In an attempt to finally get organized, I wrote my posts ahead. Yes, for the first time on my A - Z journey, I have prepared every single one, which today I am so glad about. My colleague will be on vacation for the better part of the month of April, meaning I'll have to work full time.

So if I've calculated correctly, there are 19 sleeps until we kick this season off! Can't wait to reconnect with my old A - Z friends and meet new ones!

What will you be writing about? Leave me the link to your post in the comment, so I can check it out!