by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 19, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Reading
I recently joined a Facebook alumni group for my grade school back home in West Virginia. I’m not a very enthusiastic alumnus of any of the other schools I attended, but I was excited to see pictures and share memories of those early years. I LOVED elementary...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 16, 2015 | Family, Reading
I keep seeing them on my desk and thinking my husband has misplaced his reading glasses. But no. These are mine. Each morning I get up and read a chapter in the Bible. Lately, I’ve been suffering from “morning eyes.” It’s like I can’t get...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 12, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Food, Nature
I still have to work hard to resist them. The catalogs filled with beautiful, full-color images of corn and strawberries and squash and green beans . . . I don’t even have a garden. Oh, I sometimes grow a pot of tomatoes on the porch or plant some herbs in the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 5, 2015 | Appalachian, Church, Family, Nature, Waiting
It’s finally March and temperatures actually soared into the 70s yesterday. Of course, we’re supposed to get SNOW before today is out, so we’re not too excited. But it is getting to be time to think about planting the garden. When I was a kid my...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 26, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Nature
We’re having a proper snow day today–several inches of the white stuff, hardly anyone venturing out, soup in the crock pot, and a good book to read (not to mention one to write!). Ahhhhh. When I was a kid, of course, snow days were a bit more exciting. And...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 19, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Nature
I LOVE the cover of my second novel with its bowl of multi-hued eggs. There’s a hen-house in the story and the characters often gather the eggs. That was usually my job growing up and while it’s certainly easy enough I nonetheless whined about it more than...
