Fast on the heels of my recent SM lovefest post tossing virtual bouquets to Ron D. Moore et al for their Outlander adaptation, I now stand before (or after) this book-reader’s experience that is Episode 2.08.  Here’s what I wrote on Friday, May 27th at 4:30 PM EST…. Whose Reality Bites? Then comes the episode…

Last of a Series   2016 NYC Tartan Week, we loved you long time, and now we are tired.  Hundreds of Outlander fans making their way home echoed sentiments of how much fun was had, but hella glad that it is finally over; kind of like how you need a vacation after spending a week…

A good fan girl comes to embrace each and every fan-girling opportunity as both a gift and a hope.  A good fan woman should know better. Let me explain . . .  Mission: Impossible The Season 2 premiere of Outlander is no longer a Tartan Affair.  It’s a private affair. Cries of foul play and…

Part I of this series touched on how Tartan Week and Outlander go so well together, by way of a bucolic stroll through the history of NYC Tartan Week and the Outlander fan’s love of all things Scottish, even if you are not Scots by birth. Newsflash, people:  it’s been one tough week for Outlander…

This is the first installment in a series I’m not Scots, although, like Claire, I say I am Scots by marriage, as my husband’s family is from the Isle of Mull  (his grandparent. Just the one). Since encountering the Outlander series of books and the Starz TV adaptation, something remarkable has happened to this American…

Source Claire Randall first spoke to me as a nurse. Healing from the heart and also by touch is a skill, a gift, and for others like Claire, a calling that often goes beyond the human instinct of self-preservation. In a world sadly in need of empathy and compassion, Claire’s work resonates in the interweaving…