by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 14, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Stop Press – today was the very first time in my life I had ever gone to work during a snowfall. As a longtime resident of Sydney, this constitutes pure novelty. Apparently the snow storms in the midwest and north-east of the USA have even made the Australian...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 13, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Apparently it’s snowing, finally, outside. I can’t tell for sure because it’s 10 o’clock at night and I have no view of the outside world from my apartment – just a deep vertical tunnel separating my building from the one next door,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 11, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
Last night I weaned myself off the laptop computer and headed out. For once, I was actually socialising in my own borough of Brooklyn, and even better, could catch the subway to get to my destination. One of my tennis-playing pals, Steven Paul, runs MadArts, an...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 9, 2007 | Blog, Improve your writing
Groaners – I think this is an Americanism – refer to the most overused cliches and hackneyed phrases found in news writing. Here’s the link to newswriting.com’s page chock-a-block full of examples. I found it very funny.
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 8, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
What I sight I beheld in the Chinese take-away on the corner last night. Waiting for my order of the House Special soup for an economical $4.50, a black man who was rather large around the middle entered the store. He carried a plastic container of milk and a small...
by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 7, 2007 | Blog, Memoir
On Monday night, when the temperature was a long way below zero (Celcius), I braved the multiple layers of clothing and the literally freezing streets to make my way to Yeshiva University on Lexington Avenue at East 34th Street. My friend Madeleine Beckman had asked...