by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the great pleasures of writing books is inventing heroes. Instead of swooning over other writer’s leading men, I get to build my own. The hero of The Sound of Rain releasing in just over a month, is Judd Markley. I was thinking the other day about just...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Tis the season. Yup, September is the month when the stinging insects are mad at the world. And who can blame them? Killing cold is right around the corner and this is the time of year when bears and skunks are raiding their hives, eating larvae like popcorn. On...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Sep 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Mountain people are good in a crisis. Maybe it has something to do with how many grew up hardscrabble. Or if they didn’t, their parents and grandparents did. It’s not so much about being prepared in case of an emergency, it’s knowing if there...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Can you believe tomorrow is September? My grandmother was right when she told me time picks up speed as you age. She was right about a lot of stuff. When I was a kid, Labor Day weekend meant it was time for the annual wiener roast at Toad and Berle’s. Yes, his name...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Everyone’s busy these days. Busy. Busy. Busy. Remember free time? Remember complaining about being bored when you were a kid? A friend recently commented on Facebook that she was bored and asked for suggestions to end her boredom. I didn’t comment, but my...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Aug 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
I’m writing this in case today’s eclipse isn’t the end of the world. While hardly anyone seems to agree with anyone else about anything these days, I think there is an almost universal sense of good-grief-what’s-the-world-coming-to?? Politics,...
