Sally Lloyd-Jones's Blog, page 10

hooray for Teachers

teachers teachers hooray for teachers! OK so my sister is one--and yes I am biased but what would we do where would we be  without them?

they are unsung heroes...

aritcle on this very thing here

Who was the teacher in your life that made all the difference?

Vid of the week: A Little Slave Girl and The Proud General

Vid of the week: A Little Slave Girl and The Proud General

reading with sebastian junger

well. Ok. not WITH him exactly. But in the same bookstore! And... well no. not at exactly the same time. or day. But in the same month! and in the same paragraph...

BookCourt in Brooklyn encourages people to read actual live physical books and the love of reading (hooray because it means book books aren't going away anytime soon)--this is the owner Zachary Zook (Love that name. He sounds like he comes right out of a children's book) and the NY Daily News did a piece on the bookstore and lists the writers reading at this store this month... and yes. It's true. I'm in the VERY SAME PARAGRAPH as Sebastian Junger! See for yourself here

For their list of upcoming June events (Sebastian Junger, SL-J, etc) here

Come if you can! Would love to see you (so would Sebastian)

(BTW: since I'm doing more travel lately and also trying to fit in actual writing... I'm going to move to a regular once a week blog post... instead of three. hope you'll still come along... I'll try and make them extra super fabulous...)

reading with sebastian junger

well. Ok. not WITH him exactly. But in the same bookstore! And... well no. not at exactly the same time. or day. But in the same month! and in the same paragraph...

BookCourt in Brooklyn encourages people to read actual live physical books and the love of reading (hooray because it means book books aren't going away anytime soon)--this is the owner Zachary Zook (Love that name. He sounds like he comes right out of a children's book) and the NY Daily News did a piece on the bookstore and lists the writers reading at this store this month... and yes. It's true. I'm in the VERY SAME PARAGRAPH as Sebastian Junger! See for yourself here

For their list of upcoming June events (Sebastian Junger, SL-J, etc) here

Come if you can! Would love to see you (so would Sebastian)

(BTW: since I'm doing more travel lately and also trying to fit in actual writing... I'm going to move to a regular once a week blog post... instead of three. hope you'll still come along... I'll try and make them extra super fabulous...)

What is a poet?

"Paul Valery said that a poet is like a man who carries huge weights up to a roof and drops them all at once on the head of a passer-by." via  NYT book review

What is a poet?

"Paul Valery said that a poet is like a man who carries huge weights up to a roof and drops them all at once on the head of a passer-by." via  NYT book review

What is a poet?

"Paul Valery said that a poet is like a man who carries huge weights up to a roof and drops them all at once on the head of a passer-by." via  NYT book review

What is a poet?

"Paul Valery said that a poet is like a man who carries huge weights up to a roof and drops them all at once on the head of a passer-by." via  NYT book review

are you ready? actual happy manhattan henge day

yes I already told you I know but that was completely deliberate and so you'd have advance warning... and be ready to go with your picnic and folding chairs at a moment's notice.

Here's your moment's notice. And the scoop on where to stand when.

(In case you don't know what I'm on about: two days a year, the sun sets along the east-west axis of Manhattan's street grid. So it's exactly aligned with the streets. This year it's May 30 and July 12.)

Which means here it is today. Happy Manhattan Henge Day! Here are the precise times to show up to see manhattanhenge (note: arrive half an hour before the times below):

Monday May 30: 8.17pm EDT (to see half sun on the grid)

Tuesday May 31: 8.17pm EDT (to see full sun on the grid)

For best effect (so says Hayden Planetarium and she should know) go as far east in Manhattan as poss but ensure you can still look west across the avenues to New Jersey. Here are some good ones: 14th, 23rd, 34th, 42nd, 57th (and Empire State Building on 34th and Chrysler Building on 42nd give the view even more spectaculary-fabulousness)

(All this is all very well but what if it's raining as it has been for the past oh 700 years in Manhattan and you can't actually see the sun?)

Oh well. Never mind. Someone must have thought of that. Happy Manhattan Henge Day anyway!