by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 10, 2014 | Family, Food, Reading
When I was a teen, I consumed short stories like peanut M&Ms. I could always squeeze in one more. I read them in the car, in my room, while the family was watching TV, as my brothers set off bombs . . . Nothing could distract me. I could visit twenty places in an...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 27, 2013 | Family, Friends, Miracles, Reading, Waiting
I’m excited for so many people to read my novel. My parents, my brothers, in-laws, other kin from nieces and nephews to aunts and uncles and all the cousins in between. Friends who come in the guise of co-workers, my church family, neighbors, and others. Such a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 20, 2013 | Reading
Most fiction is written in either the first (I, me) or the third (he, she, they) person. I like reading them both and have written in each. (Blogging certainly lends itself to the first person.) But when I jump into a novel it’s third person all the way. Why?...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 6, 2013 | Reading, Waiting
Christmas stories are the best. Gift of the Magi, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Littlest Angel, A Christmas Carol, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas–the list goes on and on. Oh sure, they tend to be a bit syrupy, but I’m all for happy endings,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 20, 2013 | Appalachian, Family, Nature, Reading, Thistle
Monday I took Thistle for her evening hike. I think there was a low pressure system moving in because both of us were feeling spry. As we circled around to the trail back down to the car I had an urge to cut loose and just run down that hill. So I did. And as I ran,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 8, 2013 | Miracles, Nature, Reading, Uncategorized
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh has been on my to-read list for at least a year. Then a friend expressed something akin to horror when she heard I hadn’t read it yet. So I jumped it to the top of the pile and dug in. LOVED it. The story is...
