by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 22, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Back on terra firma Australis. Delighted to see loved ones but shocked at the reality of not being in New York. No idea of whether that’s temporary or, as I fear, more permanent. Slightly jetlagged but of course desperate to work on finalising the text of my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 17, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
The next time I post to this blog I will be back in Sydney. In between now and then I will fly from Reno, Nevada (where it has been snowing) to Los Angeles Airport, then late at night tomorrow board a Qantas flight home. Home: a more complicated idea than it once was....
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 16, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Sorry for the terrible pun. The best thing by far about my trip to LA – apart from finally clutching my edited manuscript to my relieved bosom – was dinner at the Getty Museum restaurant with friends on Saturday night, followed by several hours by myself...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 13, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Half an hour to go until the Fedex guy arrives with my edited manuscript – via Brisbane, Brooklyn, Newark, Memphis (these last two stops I gleaned from tracking my package via the Fedex website), and now Los Angeles. Until I am clutching the pages in my hot...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 11, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Left NYC this morning for the airport at 5.15 am, sans critically important package that was “guaranteed” to be in my hands by noon yesterday. Critically important package being my edited manuscript. Which turned up this afternoon at my Brooklyn cafe,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 9, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
With a couple of strange days left here, I’ve shifted my heavy suitcase to my old Brooklyn neighbourhood and am writing this from my friend Cheryl’s three-storey brownstone. The late summer is suddenly shifting gear – today the sky has filled with...