by Virginia Lloyd | Nov 2, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
Milan Kundera poses this question in his 2007 book, The Curtain (reviewed here by Michael Dirda): Every novel created with real passion aspires quite naturally to a lasting aesthetic value, meaning to a value capable of surviving its author. To write without having...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 30, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Today my past came rushing up to meet me, in two very different ways. In the morning I saw an old familiar face, belonging to someone who knew me – back then – better than I knew myself; and in the late afternoon I discovered that this former employee of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 28, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
A former regular reader of this blog got in touch recently and reminded me that I used to write about jazz a bit. Which reminded me I’d been remiss in not describing the wonderful Dave Holland Sextet gig I attended at Birdland in midtown a few short weeks ago. I...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 21, 2008 | Blog
Yesterday morning I was guest speaker at Freehills’ Women in Business Pink Ribbon fundraising breakfast, an annual event to assist the major fundraising initiative of their pro bono client, the National Breast Cancer Research Foundation. After flying in from New...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 5, 2008 | Blog, Improve your writing
I’ve been honoured with an invitation to be guest speaker at a Pink Ribbon Day event in Sydney on October 21st, so it’s with mixed feelings that I’m cutting short my current stint in New York. The event is one of many awareness- and fund-raising...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 1, 2008 | Blog, Memoir
Last weekend a friend’s teenage daughter went to an underage concert in Queens with some friends. While at the concert, the unworldly young lady draped her jacket over her backpack – containing her wallet, keys, MetroCard and mobile phone – and left...