6 December 2023. — Interested to join the Poetry Club and its weekly Wednesday poetry reading list consisting of your published Medium poems? See the link at the end of the reading list for more information. Reading list expectations for participants Please read, or listen to, all the poems until the end. It will be great to engage with…

December Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Freestyle Six” — It’s only six steps to paradise. Thank you to the editorial team Mary, Sandi, and Vidya for the interesting monthly prompts they stimulate our muses with. My Publication, Clubs, and Social Media Links: | The Poetry Club & Reading List | The Engagement Club Reading List | A Taste for Life | Easy Cookbook | I Do…

When things start to fall into place. — Peace, happiness, a blinking star. Silver sober light so near, yet so far! Dreams and rainbows — in somber grey icy sky times, faintly glimmering on distant secret shores. Dreams and belonging, a slippery slope mountain to climb. — Fast forward — I want to dance and sing, for I am…

Monday, 4 December 2023. — Here is this week’s edition of Weekly Prompts. You are welcome to use any of the previous A Taste for Life prompt(s) at any time. Word prompts: Prompt 1: Joy & Tears Prompt 2: Mirror image Prompt 3: Self-awareness Prompt 4: A bedtime story Prompt 5: The little things that make life…

A five-ingredient recipe. — I love fruit cake and if you do too, this recipe is for you. It consists of 5 ingredients and is easy to prepare and bake. The dried fruits need to be soaked for a minimum of 8 hours before you assemble the cake and bake it. I bake mine…

3 December 2023. — Share one of your stories in exchange for reading all stories on our weekly Engagement Club reading list. Information on how to participate is posted at the end of this story for your information. Please note: The maximum length of a story should be between 1 and 6 minutes in…

December Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Freestyle Six” — Creativity lets your spirit fly free. Thank you to the editorial team: Mary, Sandi, and Vidya, for a space to house our photo stories and for the interesting monthly prompts. Visit the awesome six-word story weavers on the Six-Word Photo Story Web Space: Anandhi, B.R. Shenoy, Christina, Daphsam, Denise, Divina, Dr. Preeti, Krasi, Libby, Linda, Nancy…

Love doesn’t always make you see clearly. — We are opposites; You and I, two sides of a spent rusty coin. Different life paths we walked. Did we love each other once upon a time? Opposites attract, will it work? Nagging fireflies mind-buzzing. We are caring and stubborn We are happy? Glee and glum. We are perfect and imperfect, We are…

The monthly theme for December 2023 is “Celebrations & Reflections.” We enter the end-of-year festive season filled with individual, family, and corporate celebrations as we wrap up 2023. We are in the final jog toward the end post of another year. We have a variety of cultural and traditional celebrations…