CURRENT MISSION

Appreciate everything more, and require less.

ABOUT ME

After a long, beautiful era in Brooklyn, we just moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. I teach writing classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and sell books at Porter Square Books. My partner Peter is at MIT, where he studies mushroom cultivation.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With gusto.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's been wonderful thus far.

兴趣

A creative and rich style of life full of good people. I love above all to learn about other people's interests and projects. Also very into biking, hiking, ashtanga yoga, cooking vegetarian feasts (bean dips galore), gardens. Obsessed with film as well.

• writing
• books
• education
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• cycling
• hiking
• teaching

音乐、电影和书籍

Films by:
Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, some old Godard and Truffaut and Rohmer, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Wes Anderson, Abdellatif Kechiche, Michael Haneke.

Books by:
Lydia Davis, David Markson, Joan Didion, Per Petterson, Nabokov, Clarice Lispector, Gertrude Stein, Witold Gombrowicz, Roberto Bolano, George Orwell, Kafka, Tom Robbins, Georges Perec, Hermann Hesse, James Salter, Knausgaard, Jenny Offill, Elizabeth Gilbert and a smorgas of buddhism/meditation/yoga books.

Music:
Jazz and Bossa Nova, Beirut, The Beach Boys, The Watersons, CocoRosie, Kate Bush, Arthur Russell, Yann Tiersen, the Kanak, Joan Armtrading, Tallest Man on Earth.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Getting to know my young niece and nephews.

教，学，和分享

I don't think this can be predicted. Let's see what we can teach/learn/share.

我游览过的国家

Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

我居住过的国家

France, United States