Heather Poole

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  • Flight Attendants, Books, Lovers, & Emirates

    You know I love to write about writing and flying. So imagine my excitement when I found out the flight attendant working in the business class galley on my commuter flight last night from Los Angeles to New York was also a writer. Her name is Barbara Goodwin, and her…

  • Passenger of the month: Author / Speaker MARK MATTESON

    In my post, FLIGHT ATTENDANT PET PEEVE #3: YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT? I mentioned a passenger, and writer, Mark Matteson, who wrote an amazing book, Freedom From Fear, so I decided to contact him and ask him a few questions about flying and writing – my two favorite…

  • More Flying Crap

    Oh. My. God. You are not going to believe what I found at Costco last weekend! More airline crap to add to the airline museum, the one located inside my guestroom closet. Yes, it’s a bottle of Shiraz – AUS Shiraz 2006 Boarding Pass – but it’s the most adorable…

  • Naked on a Plane

    See those people disembarking off the flight over there…twenty minutes ago they were all nude. They were passengers on a Naked Air Flight. Nudists, they fly. On planes. Nude. Except for shoes. Believe it or not, there are quite a few rules to be followed when flying nude. One of…

  • Beat the crap out of the flight attendant day is over…

    Well beat the crap out of the flight attendant day is over, and it wasn’t half as bad as I thought it was going to be. Flight Attendant Pet Peeve #3, You want me to do what? generated over 540 comments, and what is even more surprising than the amount…

  • Beat the Flight Attendant Day

    Breaking news people! I’ve just gotten word that AOL plans to feature my GALLEY GOSSIP post, FLIGHT ATTENDANT PET PEEVE #3: YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT, on their main screen tomorrow. I’m dreading tomorrow. Along with this news came the advice to put on my thickest skin. How thick…

  • Flight Attendant Pet Peeve #3: You want me to do what?

    For my series GALLEY GOSSIP (at gadling.com), I wrote about something very controversial, something that needed addressing, something that is going to make people freak out big time. In fact, I actually submitted the post, then took it back, and then resent it, and then took it back again, and…

  • Tips for traveling with kids

    I’ve just written, GALLEY GOSSIP: TRAVELING WITH KIDS: A FEW SUGGESTIONS… that is posted over at Gadling.com today. With summer already here, there are more kids than ever on the flights. If you haven’t brought a child on-board with you, chances are there’s going to be one (or two) on…

  • The Ellen Show (& ME!)

    I see celebrities on the airplane all the time, and very few of them get me excited. However, there is one celebrity I was more than excited to see on-board my flight years ago, like ten years ago – before her gig as a popular daytime talk show host and…

  • Good Passengers

    I know I write a lot about crazy passengers. In fact, I actually get excited when I encounter crazy on the plane. That’s because, as a writer, crazy is just so much more interesting and exciting than not crazy. You’ve got to have conflict and drama in every post, which…