by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 2, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
First seen on the back – or was it the front? – of the fabulous Deanna Zandt at a recent shindig on Grand Street, I am desperate to have one of these t-shirts to call my own. Let me know if you want one too and I’ll try to track some down. 7 July...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jul 1, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
The first day of July was a breezy respite from some muggy late-June days. I took Sally Cooper, whose memoir of two years in Afghanistan will be published by Pan Macmillan Australia next year, to Prospect Park to take in a game of cricket. She was in NYC briefly en...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 29, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
New York voyeurs often check out Overheard in New York, an online home for all the weird, wonderful and downright unclassifiable exchanges heard on the street and subway. A friend pointed me in the direction of this charming exchange, which I was horrified to discover...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 24, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
This is a big week for Apple Girl. I will reveal more by week’s end. In the meantime, I’m delighted to share this photograph of me with two of my pals from PlayGroup. They have been as elusive in my attempts to capture them as the Tasmanian Tiger. The...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 20, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Last Friday night Simi and I attended a fabulous production which I will write about shortly, but not now: I’m wrapping up for the day at Simi’s office and am heading uptown for a game of tennis at the 96th Street courts in Riverside Park. Sigh. Reading...
by Virginia Lloyd | Jun 19, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
I’ve been busy with professional development in the last week or so, attending a few seminars at the Foundation Centre here in New York. They run many courses each month on proposal writing, budgeting, research and so on. I’m doing all these courses in...