by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 19, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
On Sunday afternoon I joined Simi, a few of her friends and a camera crew – well, her mate Christian and his colleague – to film her protesting the war in Iraq on its ignominious fourth anniversary, as part of the process of creating footage for use in the...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 14, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
I did not invent this brilliant title, it’s the name of a one-man show currently playing at the Culture Project in SoHo. Here is the New York Times’ review. Lawrence Wright, whose book The Looming Tower has generally been acclaimed as one of the notable...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 12, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
How remiss of me not to write about catching up recently with my former colleague and good friend Annette, who was passing through New York en route to a pro bono law conference. Given that dinner was on the company credit card, I was a little more expansive in my...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 10, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
At last, a glimmer of hope that the “best of the worst” of winter is over. I have just arrived back in my apartment, still dewy from my walk in Prospect Park, with the following pieces of evidence that Spring is about to, well, turn into a verb. The ice in...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 8, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
One of the best things about my immediate neighbourhood – apart from the park, the museum, the library, the express subway stations, and the couple who launder my clothes for a ridiculously low price each week – is Cheryl’s Global Soul. This fabulous...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 6, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Australians like to think of places far afield as being “beyond the Black Stump” or “the back of Bourke”. Last night I experienced spatial dislocation of the most extreme kind while talking to my friend Fiona. Fiona lives on a farm four hours...