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...
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 | Apr 29, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
My local cafe, Cheryl’s on Underhill Street, boasts brilliant coffee, wonderful food, and staff who are fun and interesting. Typically the waitstaff are taking turns at the coffee machine en route to more creative careers. My friend and barista, Derek, is a...