Liz Flaherty's Blog, page 141

Memories At Morning/Mourning??

This morning I woke up thinking about my dad.

Maybe it's because on Memorial Day, we went to the graveyard and did the flower/flag thing. 

I spent my early years in the Navy--moving every couple of years. I have glimpses of memories from those places. A stroller ride in Disneyland, crunchy snow from Waukegan, IL, fireflies and hot sand in Norfolk, VA, and picking huckleberries on a hillside in Keflavik, Iceland.

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We Are Wonks

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Grocery shopping

Good morning! Yes, I know this is being posted on Monday morning, but it’s Saturday as I write it. I am very cheerful because it is soooo beautiful outside. It’s not very warm yet, but it’s getting there. And I’m kind of excited.
About going to the grocery store.
I’ve just come back from a writers’ retreat that was so much fun and wasexciting (and fattening, but we won’t go there), I’ve sent in some requested revisions, I’ve written the dedication for the out-in-July novella, and I’m excited a...

Summer Fire!

Joan Reeves, whose book in Summer Fire is Heat Lightning, is a bestselling author of Contemporary Romance. Available as ebooks and audiobooks, her romance novels all have the same underlying theme: “It’s never too late to live happily ever after.” Joan lives her happily ever after with her husband in the Lone Star State. Sign up for WordPlay, Joan's free email list for readers: http://eepurl.com/Yk61n.
The Wranglers welcome Joan to the round corral today to talk about  Summer Fire.
I though...

Getting Towered

A couple of weeks ago I read a book by Lani Diane Rich called The Fortune Quilt in which the main character gets "towered".

I'd never heard that term before but it comes from Tarot cards. If you get that card, big changes are coming into your life. Life-altering changes.

Towered?” “It’s a Tarot thing,” she says. “The Tower. It’s when life transitions. You know— rips out the stitches. Brings your tower down and makes you rebuild. Happens to all of us at one time or another. No worries.”

Rich, La...

Jill Jacobs and the Elementals

Jill Jacobs in in the round corral today. She has just released Fire's Field, the second book in her Elementals Series. Welcome, Jill!

The Elementals Series, Book: 1 Water’s ThresholdBlurb: What happens when a lonely water-girl finally finds her shore?In a tourist town at the base of the Tetons, Maya Conway, a mythical being known as an Elemental, stands at a crossroads. On her current path, she is content using her life force—water—to protect humans and the environment. Her directio...

Watch That First Step...

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REFLECTIONS OF A CLUTTERED MIND

Duane FlahertyMy apologies! What you are about to read is old, but I've run out of time today. I hope you don' t mind reading it again. And comment--please! I hope you have a great week, and I'll be back Monday with something...er...newer. The picture's my husband, just for you to look at. He's such a nice guy. Thanks for your patience. - Liz
I’m not a very attentive person. Well, I’m attentive, just not when and where I should be. I’ve said before that if I were in school now, I’d probably be...

#FridayReads: Jennifer Lawler

Hi, everyone! We are really excited to welcome Jennifer Lawler to WordWranglers today; Kristina has known Jennifer (and feels like she knows her daughter!) for almost three years...since she bought Kristina's first book, in fact! Jennifer is here to tell us about something close to her hear, and we'll let her take it from here.

Today (May 15) is Global Awareness Day for Tuberous Sclerosis, the disease my beautiful daughter Jessica has, and in connection with that I'm doing a fundraiser for the...

Dreaming...Take Two

I know I wrote about dreams last week, but I'm still kinda stuck on them. Because two things happened since then--both happened because of that post, I think.

The first one is that my sister, Debbie, who is two years younger than me shared that she has the same reoccurring dream about the same house that I do.

When she told me, we both started describing the house and the room together...and it is, in essence, the same room.  How weird is that?

So, did we actually happen upon this house wi...