I have been trying to come up with a theme for my 2025 A to Z challenge for, believe it or not, since December. After 2 fiction-themed A-to-Z in a row, I thought it would help me to do a reflective theme on my mental status last year. It helped but that doesn’t mean I will do the same thing again.

Anyway, time completely escaped me as I did not even know the theme reveal was 2 weeks ago until I was catching up right before my flight to Japan from Taiwan. If I learned anything from my recent trip, it’s that I’m not as physically fit as I was 2 years ago.

Before I reveal my theme for 2025, it is my tradition to first look back at previous themes:

• I did a completely random theme in 2015 where I just posted whatever was on my mind that day.
• In 2016, I did quotes where a quote was posted each day.
• I traveled in 2017 and didn’t have time to do the challenge
• In 2018, my theme was Photo Story where I post a photo along with a story about the photo.
• In 2019, to coordinate with my busy work schedule, I went with the easy theme of 26 Wordless Photos and you know what they say, “a picture tells a thousand words”.
• Skipped 2020 because of, well, 2020.
• “Of all the things I am” was my theme in 2021 which was sorta a memoir, to let my reader and followers get to know me a little better.
• In 2022, I wrote a 26-part story about a psychotic millionaire writer/killer. I loved writing all those cliffhangers to keep the readers in suspense.
• In 2023, I wrote another 26-part story about a day in high school from 26 characters’ point of view.
• For my theme in 2024, my theme was 26 emotions accompanied by quotes.

If you are curious, you can click this link and check out my posts from my previous A-Z Challenge!

Now onto this year’s theme:

After a long consideration, I decided my theme for this year’s challenge will be Places – Places I’ve been or seen or Places I want to go. The word place has many definitions. In my mind, a place can mean one’s status in the world. A place can also be a building or a city or a country or just a general landmark – a dot on the map.

With that said, I hope you’ll join me in April as we explore 26 places in this wide wide world.