Sochi, Curling, and Ailsa Craig

  Curling is a sport born in Scotland, and played there since medieval times. The first written record of this contest on ice dates from 1541. The game’s popularity and viewership soar every Winter Olympics, particularly during the Games in Sochi, Russia where...

Stitches: The Surgeon, the Saddler and the Tailor.

We all worked with our hands, we just had different tools and worked on different materials, be it fabric, leather, or human tissue. Our basic tools, however, were a needle and thread. When I was growing up in Scotland, I remember studying my dad as he worked at his...

Mother’s Day and Margery

March 18th 2012 is Mothering Sunday in the UK. Mother’s Day across the pond falls on a different day than in the US. This was a bone of contention between my mother and me, for I was always getting it wrong. It seemed no matter how hard I tried, I either missed it or...