by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Easter is early this year. Which means tomorrow is Fat Tuesday and the next day is Ash Wednesday. It’s time to spend 40 days preparing for the death and Resurrection of Christ–to get my mind right for the celebration of the greatest moment in history....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 4, 2016 | Appalachian, Nature, Poetry
While folks living further to the north have no illusions about winter being over and folks further to the south rarely get the full-on winter experience, we here in the middle–the Appalachians–are suffering that in-between season. We just had a major hit...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
In case you didn’t hear, a week or so ago the east coast was covered up in snow. Which is bad for driving around, but great for reading a book under a blanket. My brother lives on the family farm in West Virginia and had my five-year-old niece to entertain over...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 28, 2016 | Appalachian, Family, Memories
I have fond memories of the power going out when I was a kid growing up on a farm in WV. I was reminiscing with my mother about one winter outage when I was particularly delighted because we got to play cards by lantern light, keep a fire going in the fireplace ALL...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
While I think last weekend’s winter storm didn’t pack quite the wallop forecaster’s feared, it did cover us up in quite a bit of snow. Which is lovely and terribly inconvenient if you want or need to go anywhere. Thankfully, we haven’t had a...
