Heather Poole

  • Travel questions answered

    Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of  of Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana, and Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines, interviewed me on her fun and insightful blog.  Just thought I’d share… This week’s Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010 contributor spends her days pushing 300-pound carts at 30,000 feet…

  • Finding time to write…

      You’re a wife, mother of a young child, and a flight attendant, when do you find time to write? I’m constantly multi-tasking.  I take notes at work on the back of catering papers between beverage services.  When I go to the gym, I plot out chapters or blog posts in my head while getting a little cardio in at the same…

  • Enter to win two business class tickets to Hong Kong on Cathay Pacific

    Until May 31, 2010 Cathay Pacific is giving away two free tickets in business class from any city to Hong Kong, as well as three nights’ accommodation at The Upper House, a portrait session with campaign photographer Andrew J. Loiterton, and eight times the Asia Miles you earn flying on…

  • Funny safety video

  • Save the date!

    Alright guys, time to mark your calendars.  On Tuesday, June 8th, at 7:00 pm, I’ll be in Pasadena at Vromans Bookstore reading an excerpt of my essay, An Ode to B-cups, featured in the  travel anthology The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010.  I’m really looking forward to the event, not just because it will be my first reading EVER (so please be…

  • Sign found in London

  • Photo of the day: Kid on the plane

  • Will the volcanic eruption lead to a baby boom?

    During 9/11 I was stuck in Zurich, Switzerland for over a week. Sure there are much worse places to be, but I spent ninety percent of that time sitting around the airport waiting to get back to the United States. Every single day I checked out the hotel, dragged my…

  • Travel tip #9: Create space saving magic

    Dear Heather, In reference to your post, 10 smart travel tips for women around the world, I have an issue with tip # 9, pack an amazing convertible dress like the American Apparel Cotton Jersey Bandeau Dress.  You did not just give American Apparel a shout out!  I don’t care if  the dress is “space-saving magic” and…

  • Switching seats, exit row safety & asking for a free upgrade

    Recently on a flight a passenger took the empty seat beside me. He had an assigned seat that he left behind. If by luck of the draw I had an empty seat (true not paid for), then it seems to me that as a beneficiary of said luck that I…