Liz Flaherty's Blog, page 151

Office Space

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Freedom and importance--do we need them both?

          So, what are your plans for 2015?

          Being on the “Yay!” side of retirement from the day job, my plans aren’t as regimented as they used to be. I get up when I want, go to bed when I want, and can change plans at the drop of a “wanna have lunch?” from Duane or a friend. Even though I have a writing schedule, it’s so loosely woven that sometimes it comes completely unthreaded by the middle of Monday morn...

Question Friday - Holiday Edition: The Wranglers' Favorite Holiday Recipes!

Hi there, WordWrangler readers! We hope you're having a wonderful holiday season. Today on the blog, we are sharing our favorite holiday recipes. Here we go!

Liz's Recipe: My favorite recipe changes every year, and none of them are mine, per se, because they've all been stolen borrowed from people much more adept in the kitchen than I am. However, I’ve loved these cookies ever since my sister made them when I was a kid. Mine aren’t as good as hers were, but that’s one of those gifts memory giv...

Merry Christmas!

Hey, Wranglers, tomorrow is Christmas Eve and although I'm writing this on December 19, I'm fairly confident I'll be baking rolls and cookies with Son and Grandboy today. We're flying west to spend the holidays with our kids and I couldn't be more excited or more pleased. I need my kids. It's really just that simple. I have about a three-month limit on how long I can go without spending face time with my Son and I confess, it's way less than that for time cuddling Grandboy.

This year, it's eve...

The waiting game

 Please join the Wranglers in support of our own Nan Reinhardt, who lost a beloved sister Friday after a valiant fight with cancer. Our sympathy is with rest of Kathi Gasaway’s family, as well. As Nan says to us in the French she loves, bises galore.     
          I am in a strange kind of writing time right now. I have been here before and will undoubtedly be here again. Now, as every other time, I don’t like it. It’s a time I...

Question Friday - Holiday Edition: The Wrangler's Favorite Holiday Tradition!

Hiya, WordWranglers Readers! We're back with another Question Friday, and since we're right in the middle of the holiday season, it's another theme. This time: What is your favorite holiday tradition!

Liz says, "My favorite tradition is the Christmas tree. Okay, I know that's pretty much a cliché, but it brings the spirit home to me better than anything else, and no matter how much alike Christmas trees are, they're all different, too, and they all have their own beauty and stories within thei...

CRUNCH TIME

One week to go. One week.

Agh!

Where did December go? If this time-warp things keeps getting worse as I get older, I'm going to have to start baking in October to have cookies by the middle of December for gift-giving.

That's what I"m doing today. Baking.

I just put my first--EVER--batch of meringue trees into the oven. And while they're baking I'm going to get some doughs going.

I don't know when I'm going to find the time to get a shower today. Not to mention wrapping presents, last-minute shopp...

Every Day A New Surprise

I've been madly decorating our house for the last couple of weeks. No, we are not Santa-and-Reindeer central, but when I attack this kind of project a little at a time I find it ends much better. With the house actually looking decorated instead of like Santa threw up on us.

My favorite thing? The past couple of years bebe has been really into LEGOs. Last year we fed that addiction with a LEGO City Advent Calendar...this year with a LEGO Friends Advent Calendar. Yeah, I know, this kind of thin...

Is It Just Me...

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Let's talk about Christmas

I went to a writers' meeting last week. They are a bunch of talented, funny, scary-smart people and I always love the meetings. I am the only romance author there--sigh--but they are (with one notable exception) supportive and kind. We are not a critique group, unless someone asks for that. We just talk and eat and laugh a lot. Usually there aren't many surprises.

However, this week, I was surprised. Out of the dozen or so of us in attendance, only about three of us really liked Christmas. Our...