ABOUT ME

Warm yet analytical, easygoing yet quick on my toes, with a loud laugh and a voracious appetite for nearly everything.

PHILOSOPHY

See one, do one, teach one.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm relatively new to CS, but have heard so many great stories from friends that I had to check it out.

Interests

Growing foods, cooking foods, eating foods. Hiking all over this beautiful native state of mine. Raising my amazing little puppy. Taking care of sick people. Learning the names of plants and bugs. Dancing (ballet! hiphop! square!). Playing piano, learning guitar. Knitting, quilting, canning, chickenkeeping, and various other oldtimey housewifely pursuits. Renovating my fixer upper of a house. Staying up til (or waking up for) sunrise.

• dancing
• ballet dancing
• cooking
• knitting
• guitar
• piano
• hiking
• racquetball
• medicine
• squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Parable of the Sower, Geek Love, The Time Traveler's Wife, Anna Karenina, Help! A Bear is Eating Me!, Dune, Les Miserables, Slaughterhouse 5, Can't Stop Won't Stop, Dharma Bums (had a serious Kerouac phase once, many years ago, but this is the only one that really holds up), Sons and Lovers, Possession, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, His Dark Materials, Virginia Woolf, Roald Dahl, Hermann Hesse, Ted Hughes, T. S. Eliot, Anne Sexton. I have the biggest academic crush on Bertrand Russell.

Clue, Dial M for Murder, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Goodnight and Good Luck, The Philadelphia Story, Ghost Dog, Cool Hand Luke, Baraka, Brick, Rear Window, Donnie Darko, Harold & Maude, City of God, Wall-E, Grindhouse, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Chronicles of Riddick

David Bowie, M. Ward, Atmosphere, Buke & Gase, Ratatat, Austra, M83, Elliot Smith, Bob Dylan, Calexico, The Smiths, Beach House, Beirut, Giant Sand, Lupe Fiasco, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Leonard Cohen, Regina Spektor, The Decemberists, deadmau5, Ella Fitzgerald, Danger Mouse, The National, Mumford and Sons, Fiona Apple, Fun, Tom Waits, Pixies, Sia, Lykke Li, Pink Floyd, Feist, Gaga.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunset from the summit of Steens Mountain.

Teach, Learn, Share

Where to go hiking in Oregon. Where to get the best truffle-oil popcorn in Portland. What time to plant squash, and how to make your carrots not die. How to knit. How to cook a delicious crustless quiche in time for surprise brunch guests. What that thing your doctor told you actually means.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, France, United States