by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 27, 2020 | Family, Friends, Love, Memories
Today is my 24th wedding anniversary. And thankfully we’re not only still in love, we also still like each other enough to stand being quarantined together. Two decades plus somehow feels like both a lifetime and maybe two weeks. Time is slippery that way....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 23, 2020 | Appalachian, Food, Reading
Lots of folks are coming up with creative ways to keep busy (and maybe distracted) during all of this self-quarantining time. Which got me to thinking about how some of my characters might handle being stuck at home. Turns out, several of them would fit right in these...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 20, 2020 | Nature, Poetry
April is National Poetry Month, which seems particularly fitting this April. I’ve been reading a fair amount of Wendell Berry’s poetry lately. Always a favorite, his work is a particularly welcome refuge these strange days. And, reading his poetry usually...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 15, 2020 | health, Memories, Miracles
Today is my anniversary. Not of my birth or my wedding, but of my stroke. On April 15, 2016, I went to work like usual and as I was addressing an envelope at my desk I . . . fell out. You can read about that experience HERE. In that post, I mentioned that having a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 13, 2020 | Church, History, Waiting
Did you know quarantine comes form the Italian, quarantina, meaning 40 days? Hellebores – Lenten Roses Having just concluded the 40 days of Lent by celebrating Easter, that number seems particularly significant. And it is–there are quite a few Biblical...
