by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 13, 2019 | dogs, Friends, Hiking, Nature, Thistle
Over the weekend Thistle and I headed out for our usual hike. It was a rainy Saturday, but dogs don’t much care about a little wet and neither do I (so long as it’s just a little!). There was only one other car in the parking area and it belonged to a family with two...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 9, 2019 | Appalachian, Family, History, holidays, Love
Yup. That’s right. The woman who invented Mother’s Day was born in Grafton, WV. Anna Jarvis campaigned for the holiday in honor of her own mother Anna Reeves Jarvis. Mother Anna was a social activist who organized Mother’s Day Work Clubs during the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 6, 2019 | Appalachian, Waiting, Writing
I don’t often flat out promote my books on this blog. I always have some links and refer to my stories with some regularity, but I’m rarely so blunt as to remind you that, well, you can buy my books. Yesterday was the start of the six-month countdown to...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 2, 2019 | Appalachian, Family, History, Nature
When Dad told stories about hunting in Kumbrabow State Forest I assumed the name was Native American. Not so. The story I’m currently writing (due out in late 2020) is set in Randolph County not far from where I grew up in WV. As I’ve researched the area I...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 29, 2019 | Church, Family, Love, Memories
On Saturday, my husband and I celebrated 23 years of marriage. That means, as of next year, I will have been married for half my life. My wedding day feels like yesterday AND a lifetime ago. It wasn’t fancy–shoot, it was in the (literally) one-room country...
