My friend Troy is a therapist who for years counseled his young clients in foster care to adopt as their role model Anne of Green Gables, once also a foster child. Resilient, tough, joyful--Anne found a place to belong, and maybe, someday, so could they. We tease him about this now, but he thought … [Read more...]
Review of “Anne with an E”: Episode 4: Fire-Haired Dreamer
Last week's Gilbert Blythe meet-n-greet went very well indeed: Not a single person "polled" didn't like the new Gilbert! Lucas Jade Zumann had massive shoes to fill (the late, great Jonathan Crombie, no less, whose "eulogy" crashed my site almost two years ago at the time of his death), so this was … [Read more...]