by Virginia Lloyd | May 17, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Standing on the subway platform en route to pick up my newly re-strung tennis racquet, a handsome man approached me. He said something, but as I was wearing my iPod headphones at the time I couldn’t hear a word. After I removed one of the buds from my ear, he...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 17, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Within a couple of weeks we’ve gone from persistently chilly to downright toasty – yesterday I actually heard people complaining about how hot it was. Human beings are marvellous creatures, aren’t we? Given the lack of visuals on Apple Girl recently...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 14, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
These words came out of the mouth of a financial planner whose advice I had recently sought. During our brief conversation I casually mentioned purchasing a pair of shoes a few days earlier, and he reacted with this beauty. The gist of his comment was that...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 12, 2007 | Blog, Uncategorized
At New York University’s Centre for Philanthropy and Fundraising (where I’ll be doing a summer intensive in July) I attended a “Lunchtime Conversation” on the topic New Trends in Giving. The speaker was Marcia Stepanek, the founding editor of a...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 11, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Sitting around a table the other night at a dinner party for a friend’s birthday, I was ambushed by a spray of questions about Australian fauna. “What’s the difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo?” “Have you ever had a pet wombat? Do...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 7, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Today at lunch I enjoyed a salmon sandwich and a broad Australian accent, both courtesy of my entrepeneur friend and colleague Rob Depinto of volunteerxchange.com and liquidwit.com. Longtime readers of this journal might recall a humorous episode I related here about...