I am a poet, a linguist, a mother, a traveler in active recovery and I commandeered my garage as my cabin so I've lived over winter in Colorado in an unheated uninsulated UTTER PARADISE OF SOLITUDE AND THOUGHT after so many years of stay at home twice-constantly parenting. My 12 year old son is trans and i am very protective of him, so if you are not comfortable with trans children you can stop reading now.

No requests for single night layovers please. We live too far away from the airport so there is too little time to connect richly.

I work with endangered languages, specializing in Arapaho on Wind River Indian Reservation. I own a puppy service company called Happy Puppy Times. I have two sweet children, a wonderful husband and hopefully a brood of baby Coturnix and Button Quail due to hatch early March. I love languages, traveling, and travelers. I have a Harry Potter collection from about 70 different countries which function as lifetime travel destinations.

I like Python a lot but my favorite coding language is JavaScript (React, though Redux leaves me baffled).

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

Couch surfers are openhearted people, eager to learn and play, as am I. I want to experience as much of the world as I can, including while I work and raise two kids in the suburbs of Denver. I love when surfers bring their cultures into my home, especially cooking; my kids (12 and 14 years old) sometimes / used to pretend they're running an exotic restaurant if our surfer can cook for us, no matter how basic.

Centres d'intérêt

• poetry
• chocolate
• walking
• coding
• piano
• hiking
• learning languages
• harry potter
• hot tubs

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter, Leaves of Grass, Le Petit Prince, Manu Chau, Iron and Wine, Tracy Chapman, Paul Simon, Nickel Creek, The Red Violin, Amelie, The Piano

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

I rode horses across Wind River Indian Reservation with a bunch of Arapaho people. It was very very cold.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

As a linguist I can design a custom lesson for you if you want to learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, German or Arapaho. It's bunches of fun. I helped Rosetta Stone's Endangered Language Department design Navajo, so I can use that skill to make simple language lessons based on whatever phrases you want to be able to say.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

I'd love to just have conversations about places we've travelled, preferably in several languages at once if we both know the same ones! I can tell you all about Native America since I have been a linguist with the Northern Arapaho Nation for 18.5 years. We can reminisce about globetrotting and enjoy having found a kindred spirit who believes in the ultimate good at the core of human nature.

Pays que j'ai visités

Bermuda, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Mali, Mexico, Portugal, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, Turkey, Wales