ABOUT ME

Many hats: artist / freelance web & graphic designer / illustrator

I'm originally from upstate NY, but I've spent most of my adult life in the south. Tennessee is home!

Creative work fuels me. So does coffee. Whiskey makes me smarter.

"I haven't seen everything, but it's on my list!" -Susan Sontag

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfing History-
Cork, Ireland : July 2009

Cross Country Adventure (TN>CA) : April 2012
Memphis, Oklahoma City, Santa Fe, Sedona, Albuquerque, Ventura, Oakland, Eugene

Cross Country Adventure (FL>CA>TN) : January 2015
Tampa, NOLA, Albuquerque, Barstow, Oakland, Santa Fe

Interests

live music, zines, dive bars and secret diners, hiking, radical quilting, gardening, kayaking, snowboarding, drawing. Travel! (duh)

• dogs
• design
• graphic design
• beer
• coffee
• gardening
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• live music
• hiking
• kayaking
• surfing
• snowboarding
• animation
• freelancing
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Tori Amos, Sleater-Kinney, Ani DiFranco, Neko Case, Andrew Bird, The Everbodyfields, The Frames, Townes Van Zandt, Neil Young, Beastie Boys, Langhorne Slim, just too many to list really...

BOOKS: Right now i'm reading "The Art of Asking" (Amanda Palmer)

MOVIES: Moonrise Kingdom, St. Vincent, I Heart Huckabees, Donnie Darko, The Wackness, Winter Passing, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Best in Show

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Just one? Ok, I'm pretty proud of this one:::
I'm an adoptee. I went in search of my birth parents at age 18 and found both of them!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm not bad in the kitchen, I like to leave drawings with my hosts, dog snuggles (when Capote is with me), I have some good stories (I hope), good conversation over coffee or beer

Countries I’ve Visited

Ecuador, France, Ireland, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States