by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 16, 2021 | Family, Memories, Writing
Does anyone write actual letters anymore? I mean the newsy, chatty, keeping-up-with-people-we-love kinds of letters. One of my greatest treasures is a collection of letters from my grandmother. She was from a generation that hadn’t given up paper and pen for the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 16, 2021 | Family
Today, I should be with Dad in WV, making a supper of ham, green beans, and potatoes followed by birthday cake or, better yet, butterscotch pie. Oh, and biscuits with butter and jelly. We’d sit out on the deck (he called it a “dorch,” half deck, half...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 5, 2021 | Family, History, West Virginia
One of the fun bonuses of writing Appalachian fiction set in my home state and inspired by my own family (seven generations worth of Mountaineers!) is connecting with a world of cousins who have discovered me through my stories. Lately, I’ve been hanging out on...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 29, 2021 | Church, Family, Love, Memories
I’m hopelessly sentimental. That’s part of the reason I love writing stories set in the recent past. It’s like getting to time travel and hang out with my grandparents and great-grandparents! So when my cousins in Pennsylvania boxed up a bunch of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 21, 2021 | Family, History, West Virginia
Yesterday was West Virginia Day–the day we celebrate seceding from the Confederacy and becoming a new state by presidential decree! I’ll always be a West Virginia girl. Even though I’ve now lived in other states longer than I did on our family farm,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 21, 2021 | Family, Food, Memories
Yesterday was my second Father’s Day without Dad. It was also West Virginia Day! Two important holidays in my world. Which got me to thinking, that if I’d spent the day with Dad, we probably would have enjoyed his favorite WV meal–beans and cornbread...
