by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Summer is a fruitful time in the soft, green mountains of Appalachia. The black raspberries are gone and now we have more blackberries than we know what to do with. The season has been prolific with more than enough for me AND the bears. When it comes to blackberries...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
I don’t know about where you are, but it’s been HOT lately. Oh, I know, breaking 90 degrees is nothing for many of you. And we DO cool down at night. Morning’s are still fresh and lovely. So I’m not expecting too much sympathy. Still when...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
I’m over on SouthernBelleView.com today, revisiting my most popular post from THIS blog. Yup, the one about SEX in Christian fiction. Somehow, almost four years after I wrote it, that piece continues to get hits. Pretty much every week. So if you’d like a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
On July 1, 1897, Edward Shue was convicted of murdering his wife Zona “Elva” Heaster Shue–thanks to HER testimony. The story out of Greenbrier County, WV, actually rates a state historic marker. And it goes something like this: On January 23, 1897,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
I try not to care too much about winning awards. Really I do. But I’m the girl who made straight A’s in school. The one who liked taking the SAT and becoming a National Merit Scholar . . . more . . . Come on over and join me at SouthernBelleView so I can...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
We just spent four days back on the farm in West Virginia. We spent time with family, I gave a reading at a farm dinner, and we tended to some family business-type stuff. It was a very productive time! And when it was over I felt utterly torn. That farm is my first...
