ABOUT ME

I am a journalist working primarily in public radio, curious about lots of things. I love to meet new people and hear their stories. Non-smoker, allergic to cats.

I have traveled to Israel, India, Sri Lanka, China, Thailand and Bermuda. I have lived in New Jersey, New York, Hong Kong, Maine, and now Indiana. New to couchsurfing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a newbie!

Interests

I enjoy reading Tarot cards and would gladly do so for a host. I love chickens. I like biking, bellydancing, making up silly songs. I enjoy conversations about politics and culture.

• cats
• chickens
• culture
• dancing
• belly dancing
• politics
• reading
• cycling
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie,also East, West Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh. The Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Flowers for Algernon, Catcher in the Rye, The Cartoon History of the Universe, Sophie's World-- Jostein Gaarder, A Streetcar Named Desire, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Kline, "Emergency Sex" (it's not what you think! ;), Gentelman of the Road by Michael Chabon - love his descriptive style. "Suffle How it Gush: An American Anarchist in the Balkans" by Shon McFessel, "The Hakawati" by Lebanese writer Rabih Allamidene. The Unbearable Lightness of Being is probably my favorite book for the last 4 years or so. So many insights without losing sight of the plot- so wise, and funny. If you know another book like that let me know.

Music: M.I.A. Beck, Gogol Bordello, Velvet Underground Lou Reed...(he signed my home-screen printed T-shirt!) Salt n Peppa, the Kinks, DeVotchka, Fiona Apple, Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch, Feist, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bowie, Jeff Buckely. Outkast, Blackalicious, the Roots, Calle 13, Taleb Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest, Janelle Monae. Natacha Atlas, George Abdo, DAM, other Arabic artists whose names I can't remember, miscllanious Gypsy-fied belly dance music, gospel. Balkan Beat Box, Shakira's Spanish songs, Portishead, MC Hammer, Positive K, Mos Def. Lady Gaga. Wierd Al, Flight of the Conchords,
Ethiopian pop from the late 60s, Fela Kuti, Seo George
I have been discovering so much great stuff on Spotify lately. Just ask.

Movies: Her, Storytelling, anything with Gene Wilder (Young Frankenstein, Willy Wonka, the Frisco Kid,) Monty Python Movies, MILK, Dogma, Mean Girls, American Beauty, Hook!, Mrs. Doubtfire, The King and I, My Cousin Vinny, A Fish Called Wanda, Coming to America, Harold and Kumar, The Squid and the Whale, Catch Me if You Can, I Heart Huckabees, Mary Poppins, 2046, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Fire by Deepa Metha, Persepolis, Juno; most Charlie Kaufman films (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Synecdoche New York), In the Loop, WALL*E, Sparticus (the original), The Darjeeling Limited

TV:
Parks and Recreation, Community, Modern Family, Boardwalk Empire, Orange is the New Black, House of Cards. Key and Peele, Portlandia, Veep, Girls

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I traveled around India and all kinds of crazy things happened.

Teach, Learn, Share

Tarot reading, belly dancing, radio journalism, English