CURRENT MISSION

living creativity

ABOUT ME

I try to engage with the world with as much intellectual and emotional honesty as possible. Or find silly things about which to laugh. Or stare at sunsets. And drink coffee. Did I mention coffee? But all that aside, am easygoing. Look for joy in the little things.

PHILOSOPHY

Good things only come through hard work, through determined trying. Yet the most wonderful moments in life are pure gifts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm on a backpacking trip right now and am couchsurfing. I love the opportunity to meet people.

Interests

poetry. cooking. baking. gardening. dogs and cats. art. playing piano and guitar. theatre. concerts. long walks. espresso. feminism. fashion. forests and beaches. reading. philosophy. museums. wine.

• cats
• dogs
• arts
• poetry
• fashion
• concerts
• womens rights
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• baking
• drinking
• gardening
• reading
• socializing
• guitar
• piano
• backpacking
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

classical (Chopin, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Berg, Tchaikovsky, Bach). jazz (John Coltrane, Miles Davis). blues. classic rock (Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin). anything great guitar (Steve Vai). metal. weird hybrid genres of metal. industrial.

Books - the list could go on and on. Favourite poets: Donne, Milton, Blake, T.S. Eliot, P.B. Shelley. I adore everything written by Virginia Woolf. Beckett's plays are genius. Angela Carter is funny and fierce and brilliant. The short stories of Chekhov and Munro encompass the universe.

I read far more books than I watch movies. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and Requiem for a Dream are two of my favourite films

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

bit into an olive supple, succulent as wine

What I Can Share with Hosts

Conversation, laughter, and respect

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain, Virgin Islands, U.S.