by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 3, 2014 | Appalachian, Church, Family, Food, Friends, Love
Back home in West Virginia there was always a bean supper at Lucille’s for the Fourth of July. George and Lucille were first cousins to my dad and they had a little, white house up on the ridge above the church. Each year, Lucille would organize the event with a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 30, 2014 | Food, Friends, Love, Reading
I spent last Sunday-Tuesday in Atlanta at the International Christian Retail show. I’ve been to quite a few writers’ conferences, but this was my first event where the focus was on selling books rather than writing them. And it was a hoot. I went to...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 16, 2014 | Family, Food
When I was a kid the unspoken rule was that girls wore dresses to church. Around the time I was eight, I got bold and dressed for church in a pair of slacks. When Dad told me to go put on a skirt I told him with GREAT confidence that God didn’t care what I wore....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 5, 2014 | Appalachian, Food, Reading
I had a pretty good idea that my novella would release sometime in June, but I didn’t know when. On Tuesday afternoon it appeared on Amazon and on Wednesday folks could start reading it! How exciting and scary all at once! Normally, I get to sort of string a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 29, 2014 | Appalachian, Family, Food, Friends
I was thinking about having some friends over to celebrate WV Day (June 20) and wondered what I could make that’s unique to my home state. Fried squirrel probably wouldn’t go over very well, I’m serving beans and cornbread at my launch party, and...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 12, 2014 | Food, Friends, Love, Miracles
I’m blessed to have a lovely group of writing friends here in Western North Carolina. We get together periodically to eat, laugh, and talk all things writing (and men, and children, and LIFE). Not long ago, our fearless leader Yvonne Lehman came to us with the...
