by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 6, 2023 | dogs
I LOVE dogs. I have yet to meet a dog I didn’t like. Even the grouchy, snappish ones. Of course, I love my very own Thistle the most. And now that she’s 12, I’ve been trying to resign myself to the fact that she’s a “senior” dog...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 22, 2021 | dogs, Poetry
World Poetry Day was actually yesterday, but I thought we’d go ahead and keep the poetry party going with a post today! (See how I used alliteration there? That’s a poetic device.) Some of my favorite poets are Wendell Berry, Ron Rash, Kathryn Stripling...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 27, 2020 | Appalachian, dogs, Hiking
If you’ve been reading my blog very long you know I hike just about every day. I’m lucky enough to live a mile from Pisgah National Forest and have been walking those trails for about twenty years now. Two decades ago the area didn’t have easy access...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 23, 2019 | dogs, Poetry
If you’ve followed this blog for very long, you know that I insert the occasional poem–mostly mine–but someone else’s now and again. I think of poetry as condensed stories. It’s the essence of life boiled down to words that will often fit...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 25, 2019 | Appalachian, dogs, folklore cures, Nature, superstition
You’ve almost certainly heard this time of year referred to as the “dog days” of summer. But do you know WHY it’s called that? I always thought it’s because this hot, muggy time of year isn’t hardly fit for a dog. And I had a...
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...
