by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 16, 2011 | Waiting
Have you recovered from the change to Daylight Savings Time yet? I haven’t. Our puppy is skeptical about getting up an hour early as well–she’s not fooled by those clocks! It kind of tickles me that as a society we’re willing to jigger with the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
It was a discouraging weekend in the news. The earthquake in Japan. A bus crash in New York killed 14. Libya continues a descent into chaos. When the world seems to be going to pieces, it can sometimes leave me wondering why I bother to write at all. When the world is...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 11, 2011 | Miracles, Waiting
Here’s my latest! We’ve adopted a puppy and I’m a little sidetracked. We had dogs when we got married almost 15 years ago and lost the last of three December 6, 2009 (see post here). It’s been over a year now and we’ve taken the plunge...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
A friend recently wrote about author Jonathan Franzen and recommended his two latest books, The Corrections and Freedom. I haven’t tried either yet, but I’m looking forward to reading them soon. They’re literary fiction, which I read less of now than...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’d often heard authors talk about how real their characters become to them. Mine are pretty real, but it wasn’t like I spent much time wondering what they were doing when I wasn’t writing about them. I mean, really. And then I had lunch with a...