Liz Flaherty's Blog, page 70
December 24, 2017
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
The Word Wranglers are taking a Christmas break. We'll be back on January 2, 2018. We hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year. See you in 2018!
December 22, 2017
The Year in Hindsight
by Ava Cuvay
Nothing like the end of the year to don our 20/20 goggles and look back. I think the exercise helps
us put a little perspective on events that might have been overly emotional at the time…a sort of making molehills out of mountains concept. The retrospect also helps us see how we’ve (hopefully) grown and evolved as individuals.
If memory serves, I began 2017 cursing and shaking my fist at it. Death and cancer had taken hold of loved ones, and my life was rather turned upside down...
Nothing like the end of the year to don our 20/20 goggles and look back. I think the exercise helps
us put a little perspective on events that might have been overly emotional at the time…a sort of making molehills out of mountains concept. The retrospect also helps us see how we’ve (hopefully) grown and evolved as individuals.If memory serves, I began 2017 cursing and shaking my fist at it. Death and cancer had taken hold of loved ones, and my life was rather turned upside down...
December 21, 2017
Merry Christmas!
By Margie Senechal
The past three days have been filled with getting stuff done. I guess that's what days off are for, especially this time of year.
Today I've been busy finishing up my baking--mint brownies, frosted sugar cookies, and no bake cookies. I did PB Blossoms, Icelandic Christmas Cake, and fudge yesterday. Finished up my shopping--thank you, Amazon Prime. And wrapped most of the gifts, although quite a few have sticky notes because I ran out of tags.
For the most part, I finally feel...
December 20, 2017
2017 Reading Challenge Update & a 2018 Challenge ~ @AuthorKristina Knight
I started the year with two book challenges going and I'm ending the year...with one. Although I'm still working my way through the abandoned challenge. It all started with Wrangler Liz: she announced her 50 books in a year challenge, and I thought, sure! I can read 50 books in a year...that's a little less than one book each week - no problem! I read all the time! Then, I decided to add a bit more of a challenge and joined in Roni Loren's 2017 challenge, which was a read/watch challenge with...
December 19, 2017
Shouldn't You Be Writing?
It’s been a tough year for me, for my family, for my dear friends. You might even say its been one helluva year. Changes, both tragic and joyful, have been coming at us so fast, I feel like time’s zipping by in one of those flippy calendar timelines they used to use in the movies to show the passage of months and years.But if I am the writer that I claim to be, that I want to be, shouldn’t I be able to write, no matter what? Shouldn’t the desire, the discipline, the need to write be insid...<![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>
December 18, 2017
If you're happy and you know it...
...read a book. Okay, maybe I changed that up a bit.
I was on "tour" last week, with Prism Book Tours. It was a good trip, a good week. I was also working with the local community theater and at the library and occasionally at home and then we went to North Carolina to watch our granddaughter graduate from college and I ran out of time. So I hope you don't mind if I use a post--or maybe a couple of them--I used somewhere else and ask you a question I asked last week. I'll ask it here at...
I was on "tour" last week, with Prism Book Tours. It was a good trip, a good week. I was also working with the local community theater and at the library and occasionally at home and then we went to North Carolina to watch our granddaughter graduate from college and I ran out of time. So I hope you don't mind if I use a post--or maybe a couple of them--I used somewhere else and ask you a question I asked last week. I'll ask it here at...
December 15, 2017
Christmas Memories and Favorite Recipes by @JanaRichards_
I don't have a picture of my rum balls. These are called Pearls and ChocolateThe season for baking has begun! Like many people, some of my happiest Christmas memories revolve around food, especially sweet treats only made at Christmas.My grandmother used to make strudel at Christmas. I remember her stretching the dough over her dining room table until it was paper thin. Then she'd dot the dough with butter, apple slices, raisins, and cinnamon. There may have been other spices but if there was...
Raising the (Cranberry) Bar ;-)
Over the years, my family has enjoyed a wide variety of cookie traditions. From green cornflake
hollies to jam thumbprints to beautifully-decorated cutout cookies. I can’t tell you how many millions of red hots I’ve meticulously placed and gallons of colored icing I’ve spread and piped over the years!
That said, the recipe that I have shared below is one I found online a few years ago. It doesn’t come with any family tradition story or memories, but it has become one of my all-time favorites....
hollies to jam thumbprints to beautifully-decorated cutout cookies. I can’t tell you how many millions of red hots I’ve meticulously placed and gallons of colored icing I’ve spread and piped over the years!That said, the recipe that I have shared below is one I found online a few years ago. It doesn’t come with any family tradition story or memories, but it has become one of my all-time favorites....
December 14, 2017
Margie Senechal's O'Henry Bars!
by Margie Senechal
So, Kristi did sugar cookies which are my go-to holiday cookies. LOL And even though, we have different recipes, I thought I'd go with what I made last night.
I have bunco tonight and we have our annual Christmas potluck. I signed up for dessert, but because we're having so much food, I thought I'd go more snacky than fancy. And these cookies fit the bill. Plus, I had cornflakes in need of a recipe.
I call these O'Henry Bars. But when I looked the recipe up online, I dis...
