by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Each year I look forward to Lent and embarking on some sort of spiritual discipline leading up to Easter. Usually, I have my fast well in mind at least a few weeks before Ash Wednesday (March 1). But this year I’ve been waffling. I wanted to come up with...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
I participated in the Asheville Christian Writers’ Conference over the weekend. One conferee asked me how to gracefully exit a 15-minute appointment. If you aren’t familiar here’s how the 15-minute appointment to pitch or share about your writing...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Feb 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have an affinity for bobcats which are native to Appalachia. So when a news story ran this week about Ollie, a female bobcat, escaping from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., I tuned in. I might have been rooting for the bobcat. Oh, I know, she’s been in...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
On January 23, 1903–114 years ago this week–the Legislature of West Virginia passed a joint resolution naming the Rhododendron as the state flower. I’ve known our state flower for as long as I can remember knowing there was such a thing. Rhododendron...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 19, 2017 | Appalachian, Uncategorized
LOTS of steps to the viewing platform. The view UP. The view DOWN. I just got back from a visit home to West Virginia. Every time I go, there’s a moment when I realize I’ll have to drive (or persuade my husband to drive) over the New River Gorge Bridge. I...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jan 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last weekend we had our first good snow of the season. I kept calling it four or five inches until my husband took the tape measure out and proved it was actually more like NINE. We did the usual snow day things–made lasagna, read, wrote, watched movies, had...
