by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s Labor Day. A day that has become little more than an extra day off from work for many people. But when it was instituted in 1882, it was meant to celebrate the working man. Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
September is just loaded with new releases that I’m eager to read. My only problem is pacing myself so I can get some writing done as well. Congratulations to some of my favorite authors on your new babies! Love’s Reckoning – Laura Frantz – On...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
It’s been a crazy, hectic week. I commented on it to a friend and he agreed he was having a similar experience. “The kind of week that makes you want to fake your own death,” he said. I laughed and laughed and laughed. Yes, exactly. But Saturday is...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
I spent a chunk of time this past weekend hashing out family history. Who was born when, who married whom, how many children did they have, when did they die . . . and so on. It’s tricky stuff. But here’s the fun part. I’ve invented every bit of it....
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 15, 2012 | Nature, Uncategorized, Waiting
I don’t much like stinging insects. And let me just say, “They started it.” I had a mostly live-and-let-live attitude until I developed a sudden allergy ten years ago and some yellow jackets tried to kill me. Now I have a them-or-me attitude and,...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
When I was in college, I planned to be a poet. Oh, I knew I wouldn’t make a living at it, but I wanted to see my poetry published and to even have a book of poetry one day. I wrote and submitted and got a few things published. I took workshops and read my...
