by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 21, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Last week in a fit of consumption I splurged on a small black handbag. I justified it on a number of grounds – goes with jeans, works for day or evening, spring’s around the corner; also, just possibly, to mark the end of a long drought for this...
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 16, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Yes folks, a Power That Be declared that daylight savings time would be brought forward a couple of weeks, and was introduced overnight last Sunday. Immediately the lengthy afternoons seduced me into a fantasy of how many late-afternoon strolls I would take in...
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, Improve your writing
This is not my description of a bad date, I’m relieved to report, but rather the title of David Kowalski’s novel, which is being published by Pan Macmillan Australia in August this year. I’m biased of course but I really do think this is an amazing...