by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
I had a stroke last Friday. It’s pretty surreal to type those words and part of me would prefer to just move on as though nothing happened. But even as I type, the loss of sensation in my left hand makes it all too clear something did. It was a baby stroke, but...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
We’re blessed to leave just a mile from Pisgah National Forest where Thistle, my husband, and I hike almost every day. Until recently, the area was gated with lots of no parking signs that made it a bit unwelcoming. But, we knew the folks who lived at the edge...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
I can’t let Poetry Month slip by without sharing one of my poems. No matter how many novels I write, I’ll always have a fondness for the sweet brevity and emotional punch of a poem. QUAKER LADIES I once read something about how the meek would inherit the...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Apr 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
I got some exciting news this week. My second full-length, Appalachian novel, Until the Harvest, has been nominated for a 2016 Christian Book Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). One of five novels in the fiction category. This is...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
O FOR A TONGUE TO SING I cannot sing. “Not your gift,” my grandmother would say. Oh, but the group up front . . . “Joyful, joyful,” they sing and “fall on your knees.” And I would if not for the stir it would cause. My knees itch to touch the floor, to bend in...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Have I told you how much I love a good Easter egg hunt?!? When we were kids there were several hunts. One was at school. There was always a golden egg and whoever found it won a chocolate bunny. I found it one year. One of the best days of my life. We also did a hunt...
