by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 12, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Food, Nature
I still have to work hard to resist them. The catalogs filled with beautiful, full-color images of corn and strawberries and squash and green beans . . . I don’t even have a garden. Oh, I sometimes grow a pot of tomatoes on the porch or plant some herbs in the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 5, 2015 | Appalachian, Church, Family, Nature, Waiting
It’s finally March and temperatures actually soared into the 70s yesterday. Of course, we’re supposed to get SNOW before today is out, so we’re not too excited. But it is getting to be time to think about planting the garden. When I was a kid my...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 26, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Nature
We’re having a proper snow day today–several inches of the white stuff, hardly anyone venturing out, soup in the crock pot, and a good book to read (not to mention one to write!). Ahhhhh. When I was a kid, of course, snow days were a bit more exciting. And...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 19, 2015 | Appalachian, Family, Nature
I LOVE the cover of my second novel with its bowl of multi-hued eggs. There’s a hen-house in the story and the characters often gather the eggs. That was usually my job growing up and while it’s certainly easy enough I nonetheless whined about it more than...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 29, 2015 | Appalachian, dogs, Love, Nature
Thistle is four now, which means my sweet Sammy has been gone for more than six years. But like any good, mountain dog, he’s taken on a certain mythological quality. That’s what we do with our dogs in Appalachia–we mourn them and then we tell their...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 19, 2015 | Family, Miracles, Nature, Reading, Waiting
The first novel has been out almost six months. The second novel isn’t due until May. The first round of excitement has died down and it’s too soon to get pumped up for round two. I’m facing the in-between time. All the flurry of being a debut author...
