Photo: Ed Speleers and Gary Lewis in Eragon (2006), hotflick.net Those of you who frequent this blog know I bang on about elevating not only girls and women, but boys and men. My husband and I are raising one of each right now, and my experience, in my predominantly white upper middle class, highly educated […]
I’ll be super honest, as is my way. The spirit hasn’t moved me lately, to blog about Outlander, (which is unusual for me). What’s going on? Am I changing? Is it changing? Probably some of both. The reason I started this blog in the first place, was to provide deeper, more satisfying content to intelligent, […]
Photo: Starz: Season 4 On September 16th, Matthew Roberts posted this beautiful photo of the famous standing stones at Craig na dun, along with the line: 7 more weeks #Outlander. Well folks, make that number just over FOUR weeks now…! 😃😃😃😃 *** WARNING*** This post contains MAJOR spoilers for non book readers, and actually, after […]
Photo: Diana at home with her gift from Matt Roberts – the A. Malcolm sign from Season 3, by Jon Gary Steele and team Have I mentioned lately how much I truly love this woman? She’s a gift, an absolute gift. Fresh from the extraordinary mind of Diana Gabaldon, and onto her Facebook page […]
Today marks the 272nd anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, which as we all know, effectively ended the Highland way of life in Scotland. This relatively recent (in the big picture) tragedy is commemorated each year in Scotland, and in Nova Scotia, Canada (and possibly elsewhere?). More about that in a minute, but first, some […]
Wowza, that last piece ended up being a real doozy, sparking a lot of conversation – some friendly, and some got a bit contentious. Why is that? Well, we all have one thing in common, no matter what our unique perspective, we are passionate about Outlander… When I write a piece that criticizes the […]
As I begin writing this, treading into the murky waters of potentially pissing off the production, especially Matt, possibly Terry, maybe Maril? I think about Oprah’s words at the Golden Globes…”What I know for sure, is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have.” So, I’ll say this: it’s never my […]
Cover Photo by John Cooper Photography *Spoilers for book and non book readers. We fans almost always have differing opinions about the show’s choices to make departures from the books. Some of us like them, some of us don’t, and there are normally folks on all points of the continuum between strongly agree and strongly […]
Photo: Maria Doyle Kennedy, BBC America This post contains straight up SPOILERS for non book readers, so proceed with that knowledge. Jocasta Cameron… we meet this intriguing new character, (who as book readers know, will be around for a while), in this next season: the visual adaptation of Diana’s fourth book in the Outlander series: […]
