Comments on Pens Fatales: La Serenissima

Oh wow, that is indeed an inspiring muse. I was lo...

2010-01-17T05:03:04.222-08:00

Oh wow, that is indeed an inspiring muse. I was lost in your beautiful description. Your next book BETTER be based in Venice so I can get lost in more than a few paragraphs. Bonus: Numerous trips MUST be made for 'research'. Write off! :-)

Thank you for the lovely photo of "my" p...

2010-01-13T00:06:07.095-08:00

Thank you for the lovely photo of "my" prosecco stopping place - La Serenissima is like nowhere else. And, as you already are Really a Writer, when are you going back to her?

Juliet: I dropped my mother when I took her to Ven...

2010-01-12T11:55:03.263-08:00

Juliet: I dropped my mother when I took her to Venice, into the acqua alta -- it was high tide, and we were up on those high platforms that they erect everywhere all over town when the sirens sound. They're one way, all pedestrian tourist foot traffic going one-way this way, and the planks just next to them going the other way. We had high boots like the locals did, though, and I thought we could just jump from one to the other, because I wanted to turn around and go the other way, but I misjudged the distance and dropped her a little, so that she was soaked, up past her waist. Men grabbed her and pulled her up, saying "piano, piano." She was so FURIOUS with me that I took her to the Florian in San Marco and bought her a fifteen dollar glass of prosecco and promised that I'd take her back to the hotel to change, but by the time she finished her glass, she was pink and giggly and very taken with her adventure and mostly dry and wanted to keep exploring and poking her nose where it didn't belong into Venetian gardens whose doors didn't close all the way.

I went to Venice years ago, with my mother. I was...

2010-01-12T11:10:24.745-08:00

I went to Venice years ago, with my mother. I was twenty-one, just finished with a year abroad studying in Spain. We had an incredible time, but i remember thinking it was too bad that I wasn't there with a lover, rather than my mother. Now, so many years later and with my Mom lost to me, the memories of that time in Venice with her are among my sweetest.

I still vow to make it back with a lover, one of these days. I think Mom would approve ;-)

I'm going to need some head time. It'll t...

2010-01-12T11:03:31.317-08:00

I'm going to need some head time. It'll take me 2.5 weeks to get there via train/cruise/train/car.

So when are we going? I'm all in. :)

2010-01-12T10:51:38.347-08:00

So when are we going? I'm all in. :)

I love Venice. Love. Love. Love. I've only bee...

2010-01-12T10:26:29.267-08:00

I love Venice. Love. Love. Love. I've only been there once, but wow. It's not like any other city. Not even close.

this is a fun new fact about you...i've never ...

2010-01-12T10:05:28.495-08:00

this is a fun new fact about you...i've never been to venice, would like to go, now i know who to go with.... :)

ahhhh, this has made me start thinking about where...

2010-01-12T07:28:48.686-08:00

ahhhh, this has made me start thinking about where I would like to go someday to reward myself for finishing something big. Junior read this with me and she says Cairo....