by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 30, 2013 | Family, Poetry, Reading
I’ve loved words, paper, books for as long as I can remember. Dad claims I learned to read because he had a habit of falling asleep while reading to me and I wanted to finish the stories. I “pretend wrote” before I learned my alphabet, filling pages...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 23, 2013 | Nature, Reading
It can be fun creating characters out of thin air. I can make them tall, short, stocky, muscular, willowy, or plump. I can make them bald or give them wild curls. I can dress them however I like. I can make them brave, silly, smart, sassy, whiny, quiet, aloof, or...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 2, 2013 | Appalachian, Friends, Miracles, Reading
There are generally two schools of fiction writers–plotters and pantsers. Plotters plan their novels–they know more or less what happens each step of the way and then write from plot point to plot point. I’ve seen calendars and spreadsheets and...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 19, 2013 | Appalachian, Reading
Remember in the movie A League of Their Own when Tom Hanks said, “There’s no crying in baseball?” Well, turns out there’s no cursing in Christian publishing. Nope, you just don’t do it. Now there are plenty of folks out there debating...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 15, 2013 | Friends, Miracles, Reading, Waiting
It’s uncanny lately how often either our Sunday School lesson or the verses from Ladies’ Bible Study match the weekly sermon. We’re between pastors at the moment, so different people are filling the pulpit and apparently God is slipping them notes on...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 21, 2013 | Family, Food, Friends, Nature, Reading
It’s the first day of summer. The Summer Solstice. Here in Western NC the sun rose at 6:15 a.m. and will set at 8:49 p.m. That’s 14 hours and 34 minutes of daylight. Compare that to the shortest day of the year when we have 9 hours and 45 minutes of sun....
