CURRENT MISSION

To be part of a sustainable, harmonious, interdependent, happy and peaceful global community.

ABOUT ME

I'm a pretty calm guy. I meditate each morning, practice a bit of Yoga (need to do more), like to read, write, hike through the woods and up and over mountains, swim in the seas and oceans. I also like to cook (and eat!) vegetarian meals. I also enjoy fasting and playing a bit of scrabble (I'm OK, not very fast) and building LEGO with my son. I like to travel and I certainly like to talk and listen (to myself, but also to others.) For five or six summers I worked as a volunteer with my family at Butterfly Valley, an eco-resort and organic farm in SW Turkey. I've also done a fair bit of teaching, most recently as a professor of communications at McDaniel College Budapest.

Currently, I live with my wife and son in Fethiye, in the Patlangic neighborhood in the Eastern part of the city.

PHILOSOPHY

To love, share, forgive, enjoy life in a responsible harmonious, educational, beneficial way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host when I'm able to and look forward to surfing someone's couch, one of these days . . .

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So far, my family and I enjoyed the company of a couchsurfer system administrator and his friend at our place in Fethiye, Turkey. They were such groovy folks, that I signed up straight away.

Interests

Hiking, Meditation, Yoga, Thinking, Talking, Listening, Writing, Eating, Fasting, doing things in groups, playing music, building Lego with my son, attending my wife's Yoga classes, giving and receiving hugs, spending heaps of time online, sleeping, daydreaming, swimming in seas and oceans, reading, quantum touch healing, public speaking and related activities.

• writing
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• surfing
• swimming
• communications
• teaching
• volunteering
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Writings of Emerson, George Orwell, Thomas Keneally, Teachings of Buddha, ancient history, most ancient writings, the Bible, Richard Wright, Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, Elmore Leonard, Daniel Defoe, Marilyn Robinson, Karen Armstrong, Rumi (Mevlana), Paul Johnson, Sandra Mackey, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, countless other writers. TV: Star Trek (TOS), Barney Miller, Frontline (PBS), Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Streets of San Francisco, Szomszédok. Radio: NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition; APR's Prairie Home Companion. Music: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Police, Mel Tormé, Billie Holiday, JS Bach, Beethoven, Carlos Santana, The Colorblind James Experience, REM, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Tommy Vig, countless other masters of jazz, classical and many other sorts of music. Movies: 2001, A Space Odyssey, Paths of Glory, Invictus, It's a Wonderful Life, Flight of the Phoenix (with James Stewart), Minority Report, 12 Monkeys, Logan's Run, A Clockwork Orange, The Duelists, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Tommy (with The Who), Pink Floyd's The Wall, Buster and Billy, Sounder, Cold Mountain, Donnie Darko, countless other great films . ..