I'm a printmaker and plant lover from the heart of the great lakes. I love to walk and talk and read and draw and garden.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Aren't we all here for the same reasons? I love to see new places and meet new people. I've been surfing couches for many years, but only a few on this site.

Interests

• arts
• design
• gardening
• drawing
• plants
• printmaking
• illustration

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: anything by Italo Calvino, Memory of fire by Eduardo Galeano, anything by Studs Terkel, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Comics: Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco, Black Paths by David B., all of Love & Rockets, An Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg, Swamp Thing

TVs: Battlestar Gallactica, Doctor Who, River, Broadchurch, Daria, Breaking Bad, A Young Doctor's Notebook

Musics: Hank Williams Sr., The Books, Thelonious Monk, the Bad Plus, Bela Bartok, Brian Eno, Nina Simone, Dolly Parton

Foods: Chocolate covered raisins, arugula

Visual arts: Antonio Frasconi, Kathe Kollwitz, Andrew Wyeth, Ben Shahn, Leonard Baskin, Elizabeth Catlett

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'd be happy to do the dishes, stack firewood, help weed your garden, read aloud, buy some beer or whiskey (or other beverage), help you build something, draw your house, cook you dinner.