by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 16, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
On the left is the entrance to an actual villa in Tuscany – technically Chianti country, a provincial region in itself – with a bona fide Tuscan out the front. The landscape on the right is the view from the back of the house. This blessed place was my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 15, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
I have a good excuse for my absence for the past week: I have been eating and drinking my way through Tuscany courtesy of my friend Stefano Maccianti, whose second novel is about to be published in Italy (more on that soon), and whose parents happen to own –...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 8, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Sitting in the balcony of Islington’s Almeida Theatre last night, it seemed bizarre that I had flown from New York to London only to watch a great American actress at work. My friend Maria had procured me a ticket to the London season of Clifford Odet’s...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 5, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Here are two reasons why my Prospect Heights neighbourhood has been such fun during the year I’ve been living here – the eponymous Cheryl of Cheryl’s Global Soul Cafe on Underhill Street (literally around the corner from my apartment, my home away...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 5, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Between last Thursday night and Sunday night, when I flew from JFK to Heathrow, I packed for my trip, packed up my apartment, successfully reclaimed my security deposit from the reluctant landlord, gave away many items too cheap to ship to Australia but too valuable...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 1, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Very excited to report that I will have my first New York byline shortly courtesy of Time Out New York, where my short piece about a young photographer whose photos of wooden cottages on sleds on Lake Champlain (four hours north of here) form part of a forthcoming...