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...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 4, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Forgive this indulgence, but I could not resist sharing with you this surprisingly musical performance from Nora, the piano-playing cat. I found it on my favourite website Arts & Letters Daily, but it originated on YouTube. Watching her at the keyboard made me...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 1, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
One quite extraordinary feature of television advertising in the US is that the pharmaceutical companies are allowed to promote individual drugs direct to the public. As an industry with enormous lobbying power and vast quantities of cash, this practice produces many...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 26, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Late today I had the great pleasure of participating in a very creative brainstorm about how to adapt Simi Linton’s memoir to the stage. We’re still waiting to hear about the success or otherwise of our various grant applications – and I’ve got...