by Virginia Lloyd | May 6, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
I was delighted, surprised, and a little embarrassed to receive this gracious and articulate response from DJ Spooky himself to my post yesterday about his Rebirth of a Nation project: “Actually it wasn’t really meant to ‘subvert’ the film, it’s...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 5, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Jasper is the new pride and joy of my former colleague Sachaa and her husband Adam, who were in NYC last November briefly and featured in this previous post. Sachaa is a fiend with the camera and recently sent friends a library of images of her newest and most...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 5, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Perhaps it was because I’d been up since 6am. Perhaps it was the fact that my friend Derek and I mistook north for south, then east for west, in trying to get to our destination in TriBeCa, and walked almost two miles (me in heels) as a result. Perhaps it was...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 1, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
The picture above was taken at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens (but not by me). In my neighborhood the blossoms are at their peak now – for just a couple of short weeks each year – but it has been so hopeful just watching...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 1, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
An arresting title for a personal essay, don’t you think? I attended a personal essay-writing workshop last week at MediaBistro headquarters at 494 Broadway (fourth-floor walk-up of course, just what I needed after a long day at Simi’s home office), and...
by Virginia Lloyd | Apr 29, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing, Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement
This question was the topic of one of the final sessions of the PEN World Voices writers’ festival. I took the subway into Manhattan and found one of the few remaining seats at the Instituto Cervantes – a place I’d never heard of before, an Upper...