by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
CROCK POT BEANS & CAST IRON CORNBREAD Back in Miracle in a Dry Season, beans and cornbread is the first meal Perla makes for the town of Wise, WV, that somehow feeds them all . . . with a little left over. Growing up, beans and cornbread was a standby meal for...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
I guess it was John Denver who started the whole “almost heaven, West Virginia” business with his “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” A very good song, in my opinion. And an accurate sentiment for the most part. Goodness knows, when I step foot on...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
I think we all come to that moment when we open our mouths and utter words that we suddenly, unexpectedly recognize as . . . our mother’s. They’re the phrases she used over and over until we really didn’t hear them anymore. Except they’re...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
This past weekend I noticed that the blackberry brambles were swelling with buds and thought to myself that Blackberry Winter would likely be along any day. Well, yesterday started in the mid 40s and today the high is supposed to be 55 after a stretch of 70s and even...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 2, 2016 | Friends, Reading, Speaking, Uncategorized
Before I was published I might have daydreamed a little about the events I would do once I was . . . well, you know . . . famous. Signings, readings, interviews. Now, two years into this published author business, let’s just say the reality hasn’t quite...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
In reading some history from back home–Upshur County, WV–I stumbled across an interesting record from April 21, 1862–154 years ago today. That would be during the Civil War and a little more than a year before West Virginia seceded and became a...
