by Liz Curtis Higgs | Apr 15, 2013 | Historical Fiction, The Writing Life
Story can happen anywhere. Scenes from my novels have unfolded in a busy Glasgow airport, in a poorly lit hotel room in Dallas, on a kitchen counter in Auckland, in the passenger seat of a car rolling through rural Ohio, on a coffee table in Johannesburg. When...
by Liz Curtis Higgs | Dec 14, 2012 | Food
Home baked shortbread served with tea is a Scottish tradition worth embracing. Why not brew a pot of Earl Grey or Scottish Breakfast tea and serve it piping hot (I love mine with milk and sugar). While you are enjoying your first cup, it’s time to do a bit of...
by Liz Curtis Higgs | Dec 7, 2012 | Scenery, Travel, Weather
Tuesday morning, December 4th. The air was still. Cold. A thick mist moved round Loch Lomond. Pale sunlight touched the snowy mountaintops. The landscape had little color, and the trees were black silhouettes. Loch Lomond lay before us glassy, reflective, serene. Even...
by Liz Curtis Higgs | Nov 9, 2012 | Folklore
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” ~ Sir J. M. Barrie, Scottish journalist, writer, and dramatist (1860-1937) One autumn afternoon in...
by Liz Curtis Higgs | Oct 25, 2012 | Kirks
I love cemeteries. Aye, really. Before you think I’m daft or the least bit morbid, here’s why I’m keen on kirkyards, like the one above, viewed through the sixteenth-century remains of Mar’s Wark, built in Stirling by the Earl of Mar. The grounds are green, the air...
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