by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 7, 2012 | Poetry, Reading
Today and tomorrow I’ll be enjoying the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in Burnsville, NC. This isn’t a Christian writers event, but even though my focus is on Christian fiction, I think it’s equally important to keep up with secular writing....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 29, 2012 | Friends, Reading
An article in Scientific American cited a study that showed people speak an average of around 16,000 words a day (men a little under, women a little over). Holy cow. I knew I could talk, but that much? Imagine what happens when I do one of my speaking engagements....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 13, 2012 | Miracles, Reading
Editor and author Ramona Richards has begun a lovely blog called One Life; One Verse that features various writers reflecting on passages of scripture that have impacted their lives. I LOVE this idea and promptly sent Ramona a submission. It’s the post for...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 3, 2012 | Reading
Remember the bookmobile? We had a tiny library at my grade school that didn’t offer much variety. So, every few weeks the bookmobile would come by and we could go out in small groups to choose books. Heaven. The bookmobile had an aisle down the middle and books...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 1, 2012 | Friends, Reading
Circle of Friends, The Copper Beech, Scarlet Feather, Firefly Summer–I’ve read them all along with the dozen or so other novels Maeve Binchy wrote. I LOVED them. And now she’s gone. Died at age 72 in a Dublin, Ireland hospital. No more tales of...
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...
