Back in April I did a month-long blogging challenge and I enjoyed it so much. It was stimulating to write a blog post and know someone else would read it. In September, Effy Wild is doing another blog challenge so I'm going to join in.

When I did the challenge before, I blogged more but I didn't blog every day. This time I am going to attempt everyday blogging, while at the same time giving myself the grace to know I might not accomplish it, and that is OK. Especially because in September I'm also going to be working on an essay I want to contribute to a writing contest.

Some of my blog posts will be on topics I write about often:

• book reviews
  quilting
  scrapbooking
  exercise
  hiking
  life right now/currently

But in preparation, I thought I would create a list of blog topics to pull from when I'm not writing on those usual ones. These words came from random poems in the poetry anthology 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, edited by Edward Hirsch, which I'm also going to be reading in September. (If you like poetry, or if you ever thought I'd like to learn to enjoy reading poetry but I don't even know where to start, Hirsch's books are excellent. This one includes information about the poet, the time period/social setting when the poem was written, and some analysis of each poem. It's also very wide ranging, not just familiar poems from American writers.)

• Café
  Midst
  Dress
  Window
  Fifty
  Sacred
  Story
  Cactus
  Ancestry
  Solace
  Blue
  Mirror
  Reconcile
  Bonfire
  Song
  Rose
  Curl
  Memory
  Italy
  Worst
  Dedication
  Understanding
  Petal
  River
  Vision
  Bridge
  Black
  Fastidious
  Ascetic
  Fauna

Hoping I can get some writing momentum going again!