MONTHLY CHALLENGE

Your 2024: A Recap

The Picture This January monthly challenge

View of Lake Superior from Brighton Beach in Duluth, Minnesota. Photo by Author.

I declare the January monthly challenge at Picture This my absolute favorite.

I’m curious, fascinated with people and how they live their lives, and I love to match a photo with a story. Maybe that makes me nosy? I’m ok with that.

This challenge has added fun and surprise to a month I don’t prefer.

So thank you! For letting us in on your lives, the 2024 edition.

Medium has been a funky place lately, not unlike the country where I live.

I know many of us feel it (and write about it). Change and uncertainty can cause a lot of confusion and panic.

JoAnn Ryan addresses this in a newsletter for her two publications — Picture This and Globetrotters. I recommend that you take a look, maybe her words will help you as they’ve helped me:

Beautiful Strangers in a Strange Land

And now, the monthly challenge submissions: