by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Oct 1, 2012 | Food, Friends, Miracles, Nature, Reading, Waiting
Last Friday I wrote about the bacon shortage that isn’t. A friend pointed out that most of us have gone without something at some point and survived it. Which got me thinking about what I’ve had to go without and how I handled it. Electricity. We’ve...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 31, 2012 | Miracles, Nature, Waiting
Mama’s cubs are growing fast. They’ve grown from roly poly little balls of fluff to bears about half the size of their mother. Fall is a great time for bears with good things to eat like apples, grapes, acorns, hickory nuts and . . . bees! Yup, one of my...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 15, 2012 | Nature, Uncategorized, Waiting
I don’t much like stinging insects. And let me just say, “They started it.” I had a mostly live-and-let-live attitude until I developed a sudden allergy ten years ago and some yellow jackets tried to kill me. Now I have a them-or-me attitude and,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 27, 2012 | Miracles, Nature, Reading
I’ve written before about the bears that live in our neighborhood. Mama’s three cubs are growing, but still have much of the roly, poly baby about them. This evening I noticed Mama had come for her almost daily visit. She usually checks the bird feeder and...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 20, 2012 | Miracles, Nature, Thistle
My dog Thistle LOVES people. At the dog park, she often greets people before other dogs. You may remember that she had a run-in with an electric fence a while back. She still hasn’t gotten completely over it. What a memory! When we walk along that stretch of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 16, 2012 | Friends, Nature, Waiting
Ahhhh. Just imagine. Four days in the gorgeous mountains of Western North Carolina talking about writing, learning about writing and . . . well . . . writing! Did I mention those four days fall in October when the leaves are at their peak, the air is crisp, the sky is...
