by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 23, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
An astute regular reader has suggested that given my recent change of address I might need to alter the title of this blog. Certainly “Apple Girl” presents two disadvantages: not only does Sydney have no symbolic relationship to the fruit, but I have...
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 7, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Friends, if you didn’t see last weekend’s review of David Kowalski’s The Company of the Dead, the wonderful novel to which I played editorial midwife for many years, please take a look here. The author told me that his mother was moved to tears...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 7, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
My London friends are Mac aficionados and photography fiends and showed off some of the more interesting features of the iPhoto software. This one is “Pop Art Virginia”. The others – including “Facial Distortion Virginia” and “Photo...