by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 12, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Food, Nature
I still have to work hard to resist them. The catalogs filled with beautiful, full-color images of corn and strawberries and squash and green beans . . . I don’t even have a garden. Oh, I sometimes grow a pot of tomatoes on the porch or plant some herbs in the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today I’m over at SouthernBelleView giving more details about finding the owner of my 130-year-old copy of Longfellow’s Poems. Pop on over if you want to read a bit of Carlotta’s story and how she fell in love . . .
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 5, 2015 | Appalachian, Church, Family, Nature, Waiting
It’s finally March and temperatures actually soared into the 70s yesterday. Of course, we’re supposed to get SNOW before today is out, so we’re not too excited. But it is getting to be time to think about planting the garden. When I was a kid my...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 2, 2015 | Miracles
As you may know, each of my novels is loosely based on a Biblical miracle. In Miracle in a Dry Season it’s Christ’s feeding of the 5,000 or the story of the widow with the ever full jar of oil. In Until the Harvest it’s miraculous healing. And in...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 26, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Nature
We’re having a proper snow day today–several inches of the white stuff, hardly anyone venturing out, soup in the crock pot, and a good book to read (not to mention one to write!). Ahhhhh. When I was a kid, of course, snow days were a bit more exciting. And...
