CURRENT MISSION

To become the ME I need to be

ABOUT ME

I'm quiet but once I get to know people, am a "hoot." lol. I'm a good friend.

PHILOSOPHY

There's only now. There's only here. Give into love or live in fear. No other path. No other way. No day but today.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My couch is open and hopefully others are, too.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new but I'll keep you updated.

Interests

family and friends, history, reading and writing, learning, politics, genealogy, Wikipedia, good sleep, bookstores, well written books and tv shows, worthy causes, laughter, my AP Stylebook, my ipod, music, being inspired, Crispix with half & half, youtube and all it entails, amazing women, liberalism, anything Tom Brokaw does, Kennedy optimism, communities, considering a future in LGBT activism, flip-flops, wishing for the vernacular of Sidney Poitier, Faygo, HGTV & Food Network (I'm destined to be a househusband), trying to reduce my ecological footprint, declaring my undying love for Neil Patrick Harris, peanut butter, NPR

• writing
• books
• causes
• dining
• politics
• reading
• tv
• music
• genealogy
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The Sound of Music, Walk the Line, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Inherit the Wind, Love Actually, Elizabethtown, Paper Clips, Fried Green Tomatoes, V for Vendetta, Mary Poppins, Rent, Angels in America, Almost Famous, A League of Their Own, TransAmerica, The Notebook, On Golden Pond, Newsies, Hairspray, Across the Universe, Freedom Writers, The Family Stone, Meet Me in St. Louis, A Walk to Remember, We are Marshall, Juno, For the Bible Tells Me So, Latter Days, The Cider House Rules, Mr. Holland's Opus, Planet of the Apes, Accepted, Indiana Jones, Blood Diamond, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, P.S. I Love You, Hotel Rwanda, The Laramie Project, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Curiousity of Chance, Brokeback Mountain, De-Lovely, Dead Poets Society, The Color Purple, Torch Song Trilogy, Milk, Camp, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Times of Harvey Milk, Frost / Nixon, Twilight

Music: Elton John, the Carter Family, Joni Mitchell, Michael Buble, Peter, Paul and Mary, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Julie Andrews, The Fray, Judy Garland, Dixie Chicks, Carole King, James Blunt, Mika, Mother Maybelle, Carrie Underwood, All-American Rejects, Savage Garden, Mahalia Jackson, Sugarland, Cyndi Lauper, Melissa Etheridge, Alan Jackson, Fall Out Boy, Dispatch, Kevin Devine, Relient K, K.T. Oslin, Tracey Chapman, James Taylor, ABBA, John Mayer, Secondhand Serenade, Taylor Swift, Jay Brannan, Beatles, Josh Turner, The Killers, Rodney Atkins, Ingrid Michaelson, Jason Mraz, Leona Lewis, Quietdrive, Fleetwood Mac, Rent, Wicked, most musicals...lol

Books: The Grapes of Wrath, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Blue Like Jazz, A Son Called Gabriel, Leave Myself Behind, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone, The Greatest Generation, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Looking for It, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands, The Last Lecture, Swish, Wicked, The Color Purple, The Mayor of Castro Street, Nickel and Dimed

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'll have to think about that.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll get back to you.