Scroll to unlock today’s reflective prompt — A diminishing supply of my mom’s last-ever Christmas cookies is stored in my freezer. They are the last of a tradition that lasted my entire life and I am sure even before that. My mom would bake hundreds of cookies. There would be more than ten different kinds. Tins of…

Scroll to unlock today’s reflective prompt — This time of the year whether you live in the northern hemisphere with winter coming or here or the southern hemisphere and are enjoying summer it is a time for reflection and looking forward. The January idea of New Year’s resolutions come out of these reflections. …

Scroll to unlock today’s reflective prompt — Holiday times bring a memory of an old college friendship. When we would get together after we graduated we would hear Bob exclaim “Too many dogs in the house”. It didn’t mean any were leaving, rather more might be on the way. Holidays are a time for family, both blood…

Scroll to unlock today’s reflective prompt — The holidays are often glorified for how wonderful they are. However, for a great number of people the holidays are extremely stressful. For a number of people holidays are part of childhood traumas they bring into adulthood. Dysfunctional families are magnified as much if not more than loving and caring…

Scroll to unlock today’s reflective prompt — Since early civilization and maybe before that people have looked to the night sky for hope, guidance, mysticism, spirituality, and beauty. The night sky today is much dimmer than it used to be do often because of light saturation and pollution. Anyone who has looked up at the night sky…

Scroll to unlock today’s reflective prompt — Sometimes a gift of the right item or thing can change our life forever. I know this seems rare but musicians sometimes recall the first guitar or a game designer or programmer their first computer. A gift of a fur kid can help with emotional issues and trauma. 🎁PROMPT 7: Please share a story about the greatest gift you ever received and why it was so special. 🎁

KTHT Weekly Prompts for November 28 to December 3 — Traditions and Giving Thanks During our lives, we are going to have many chapters in the story that is our life. This week people in the United States celebrated Thanksgiving. This holiday has roots back to the early colonization of the new world by Europeans. The holiday now means different…

KTHT Writing Prompts October 17–22 — The famous anthropologist Margaret Mead believed the first evidence of human civilization was not tools or things like clay pots. She believed the remains of a human body in an archeological site with a healed femur did. The bone connects the hip to the knee. Her argument being since it…

KTHT Weekly Prompts for the Week of August 1–5 — The month I was away from KTHT was filled with all of these and the lessons learned now and before. It all started with a phone call like others I have received this year. My mother was in the hospital again. It was her sixth visit in 2022. My brother…