Have lived and worked abroad in Africa, Mideast, and the South Pacific. Geographer specializing in island environments and cultures. Edited book on the Pacific Islands. Raised two children, one currently in Japan, the other in the US.

Interests

• photography
• running
• gardening
• music
• hiking
• kayaking
• swimming
• philosophy
• art
• conversation
• folk dance
• botany
• outrigger canoeing
• indigenous culture
• trail blazing

Music, Movies, and Books

World music, sacred music, literature and movies that are lyrical and thought provoking

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Started garden in Sandspit, Haida Gwaii (BC), built greenhouse, sold produce at farmers market.

Teach, Learn, Share

Thus I visited each of my friends in turn, trying, with fumbling fingers, to prise open their locked caskets. I went from one to the other holding my sorrow — no, not my sorrow but the incomprehensible nature of this our life — for their inspection. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. Virginia Woolf, the Waves

15“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.” 16But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. 17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.” Book of Ruth

What I Can Share with Hosts

Breadmaking, foreign travel, geography, languages

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cook Islands, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, Netherlands, Samoa, Sudan, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, French Polynesia, Israel, Kenya, New Zealand, Tokelau, United States