by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Dec 7, 2012 | Family, Friends, Miracles, Waiting
Guess what? The first week of December is GONE! Yup, Christmas is just two and a half weeks away. Are you ready? Are you counting down with joy and anticipation? Or is there a little how-will-I-get-everything-done dread mixed in there? When I was little, we had a...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 30, 2012 | Miracles, Waiting
So you’ve probably heard that I have an agent. Except it’s not quite official until I sign the contract. We were out of town over Thanksgiving so I figured the contract would be in that stack of held mail. I pawed through waaaay too many holiday catalogs...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 26, 2012 | Family, Thistle, Waiting
It was a good Thanksgiving. I got to go see my family in WV and Thistle came along for the first time. I wasn’t too sure about all that traveling with a rowdy two-year-old pup. But my favorite bumper sticker sentiment proved true: “Don’t tell...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 16, 2012 | Nature, Thistle, Waiting
Tomorrow is Thistle’s second birthday. Not long after we adopted her I remember thinking that we should be able to hike with her off-leash by the time she was two. We’d enjoyed off-leash time with our three senior dogs in the woods and I wanted to do that...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 5, 2012 | Waiting
I have a confession. During this almost endless political season, when the pollsters call, I answer. I answer every poll I possibly can. And I lie. I change my ethnicity, my age, my sex. The only thing I tell true is my political preference. (And we won’t get...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Nov 2, 2012 | Food, Friends, Nature, Thistle, Waiting
We had a couple of inches of snow from Hurricane Sandy. Nothing compared to what folks further north are contending with, but it was pretty dramatic for Western North Carolina. Now the snow is gone, the sun is shining and . . . it’s still autumn. Oh, plenty of...
