Heather Poole

  • FAN MAIL!

    I know it’s hard to believe, because even I have a hard time believing it, but from time to time I actually get fan mail. Yesterday I recieved a very interesting (and exciting) letter that I’d like to share with you, even though I had to delete a few things…

  • VENICE (or salami heaven?)

    You know the old joke, is that a salami in your pocket or are you happy to see me? Well if you’re asking my husband, that’d be an entire freakin salami in his khaki cargo pants pocket weighing him down. There’s also probably a brick of hard cheese in there,…

  • VENICE: The Dreaded Gondola Ride

    ME: How much for a gondola ride? GONDOLIER: 80 for 30/40 minutes THE HUSBAND: I’ll pay 200 not to go. Not go, oh no no no no…I don’t think so, honey. I’m sorry but you can not go to Venice without taking a gondola ride, which is exactly what The…

  • CANNAREGIO

    And the Jews were gone. That’s what I read when I glanced over The Husband’s shoulder to see what could make his thumbs type so frantically on the blackberry as he sat on the Moroccan bed in our cush hotel in Venice. I just looked at him. He didn’t notice.…

  • VENICE: Testing Positive For Explosives

    “There’s something I need to tell you,” I said to the husband whose big brown eyes had turned crazy, like crazy crazy, like those of a wild cat I once made the mistake of rescuing years ago from a neighbor’s backyard. I was just joking around, trying to make a…

  • VENICE: In Search of Olive Oil

    Azienda Oleicola Deoli Abruzzi, that’s what it reads on the most amazing bottle of olive oil I’ve ever had the pleasure to taste. At least I think that’s what it says because I had to zoom in 16X’s to read the label, and even then I had problems making out…

  • Coming Soon…Italy Trip Report

    Okay people, I’m a bit overwhelmed over here, trying to unpack, organize 600 photos (gulp) and catch up with day to day life. I have no idea when I’m going to be able to sit down and write, and I mean really write, because I have a ton to write…

  • My unpinched butt is back!

    I’m back. Landed at JFK just a few hours ago. I am typing this with one eye closed as the other rolls back in my head. I’m that tired. And I have so much to write about. So much, I don’t even know where I’m going to start. Or when…

  • CIAO, BABY!

    I’m off to Italy tomorrow where I’ll be eating my way across the country. I’ll post when I can, but I won’t be back until the 14th, so try not to miss me too much… MAY 3: New YorkMAY 4: Fly to LondonMAY 5: Fly to VeniceMAY 6: VeniceMAY 7:…

  • Waving The Change Fee

    Last night my husband made love. To a man. And I watched. The whole thing. From the bed. As the two of them went at it. For half an hour. It was, to put it nicely, quite disgusting. I hope I don’t ever have to witness something like that again.…