by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 11, 2018 | Appalachian, bears, Family, Food, Memories, Nature
I’ve mostly given up trying to grow our food. I keep a pot of herbs and this year I grew a cherry tomato in a pot near the front porch. Based on what I paid for the plant and the number of tomatoes I picked, I’d say I broke even on that one. But, like the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 4, 2018 | Appalachian, Hiking, Nature, Poetry
I’ve loved Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay since I first saw The Outsiders movie. I think that’s the hardest I’ve ever cried at a movie. The poem is so gorgeously bittersweet. To me, it’s always spoken of that moment in autumn...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 27, 2018 | Appalachian, Family, Memories
My latest novella–A Shot at Love–releases next Tuesday. It’s part of The Christmas Heirloom, a collection of stories that follows a piece of jewelry from Regency England to modern-day America. Now, these are romances–sweet stories of finding...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 24, 2018 | Appalachian, Friends, Writing
I’ve just returned from the ACFW Conference (American Christian Fiction Writers). It’s always fun to hang out with other writers not to mention my agent and editor. But there’s a certain question folks ask each other over and over again . . ....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 20, 2018 | Appalachian, Food, History, Writing
My friend Valerie recently gave me a treasure. It’s a copy of the 8th edition of Old Timey Recipes from 1975 as collected by Phyllis Connor. Inside the front cover someone wrote, “West Virginia, August 1976.” Since I would have been five years old...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 13, 2018 | Appalachian, History, Nature
Having lived on the coast of South Carolina I’ve had more experience with hurricanes than I like. We actually moved to the mountains of western North Carolina in large part because of flooding from Hurricane Floyd in 1999. But the mountains are not immune from...
