by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 30, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, Love
If you follow my blog you know Monday was my anniversary. It was also the day my Dad died. He’s the one who passed the storytelling gene on to me. So many of his stories are woven into my novels. Dad finding my first novel on the shelf at the Upshur County...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 27, 2020 | Family, Friends, Love, Memories
Today is my 24th wedding anniversary. And thankfully we’re not only still in love, we also still like each other enough to stand being quarantined together. Two decades plus somehow feels like both a lifetime and maybe two weeks. Time is slippery that way....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 30, 2020 | Love, Waiting
I’ve aimed to keep my coronavirus-related posts on the light-hearted side. There’s plenty of gloom and doom without my adding to it. I rarely watch the news anymore and just go to a few, trusted sources for my updates. One of those is the Worldometer. This...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 6, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, Love, Memories
I recently had my grandmother’s engagement ring restored (thank you Andy at Marthaler Jewelers!) It now sparkles like it must have when Grandpa bought it more than 60 years ago. The ring is VERY special to me. Grandma Burla was Grandpa Rex’s second wife....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 11, 2019 | Family, Friends, Love, Writing
Nope. Didn’t win. Except, maybe I did in a way. Oh, I don’t have one of those sparkly glass awards to sit on my desk, but I sure as shooting felt like a winner last week at the Christy Award Gala and in the days following. MY WINS: I got to wear a fancy...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 16, 2019 | Family, History, Love
Last weekend I had the pleasure of meeting Sharon Robinson, baseball great Jackie Robinson’s daughter. I HOPE you already know what a huge impact Jackie Robinson had on the civil rights movement by breaking the color barrier in sports when he played for the...