by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 11, 2014 | Appalachian, Food, Friends, Reading, Waiting
Have you finished your shopping yet? I’m just about done and I’ve even wrapped everything and shipped the gifts that need to go to family I won’t see this holiday season. Which means I have time to help YOU shop! And what would I recommend but some...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 4, 2014 | Appalachian, Church, Family, Food, Friends, Love, Waiting
Guess what? It’s 21 days ’til Christmas! Yup, Christmas is just three weeks away. Are you ready? Are you counting down with joy and anticipation? Or is there a little how-will-I-get-everything-done dread mixed in there? When I was little, we had a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 1, 2014 | Appalachian, Family, Food, Friends, Reading
When given the option, I tend to pick dates that have some significance for me. So, when my editor asked when I’d have book #3 for him to look at I picked . . . my birthday. So here it is, on the day I turn 43 I’m sending my latest manuscript off to my...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 24, 2014 | Family, Food, Friends, Love, Miracles
Welcome to the season of over-eating. First, there’s Thanksgiving with all its abundance. And since everyone else is eating too much it kind of gives us all permission to indulge. What’s one more bite of pecan pie when you’ve already exceeded your...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 23, 2014 | Appalachian, Family, Food, Nature
In Western North Carolina we’re deep in my favorite season of the year. And so, I can’t resist taking a moment to enumerate some of what I love about fall in Appalachia. Fall color! Red and gold, rust, sunshine yellow, orange so vivid it makes you feel...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 20, 2014 | Appalachian, Family, Food, Friends, Love, Reading
Well, it wasn’t exactly a book tour, but it’s about as close as I’ll get until my books are a bit more, well, known. I did two events back home in WV last week–a reading at a dinner at Fish Hawk Acres and a signing at Mainline Books. And it was...
