by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 28, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, Memories
I enjoy looking at historic homes on-line and recently realized that porch swings are much more common to the rural south–including Appalachia. It finally hit me that northern homes don’t have as many swings–or porches for that matter–because...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 21, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, Memories
Thistle and I have been walking through a neighbor’s pasture lately. There’s a critter trail we take and I can’t walk through the waist high grasses without thinking about my father telling us to stay out of the hayfield lest we mash down the grasses...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 18, 2020 | Family, Love, Memories
It’s been three weeks since Dad died. I’m getting used to the idea. That’s Dad grinning with me on my wedding day. But not really. Maybe that’s the catch. I don’t actually want to be less sad about losing my father. It feels right to me...
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 | Apr 15, 2020 | health, Memories, Miracles
Today is my anniversary. Not of my birth or my wedding, but of my stroke. On April 15, 2016, I went to work like usual and as I was addressing an envelope at my desk I . . . fell out. You can read about that experience HERE. In that post, I mentioned that having a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 9, 2020 | Appalachian, Food, Memories
I think we’re all looking for good news these days. A hint of a silver lining in the midst of all the craziness in the world. And I think I’ve found one! Growing up, we had a full-on summer garden. Potatoes, sugar peas, lettuces, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers,...
