Life is about making connections, internally and externally.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To experience more slices of life.

Interests

Biking, tea, coffee, cooking and baking, sunshine and snow, ashtanga. Improvising (anything). Lately I've been doing some ultimate frisbee.

• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• baking
• drinking
• cycling

Music, Movies, and Books

The Diane Rehm Show. Economist Editor's Picks. Philosophy Bites podcast. Joan Baez, Dar Williams, Indigo Girls, Deb Talan. Bach. Beck, Cake, Morphine.

If on a winter's night a traveler (Calvino), Villette (Bronte), anything by Oscar Wilde, A Room of One's Own (Woolf), The Peace War (Vinge), Anathem (Stephenson), Cryptonomicon (Stephenson), Earthsea Trilogy (LeGuin), The Cyberiad (Lem), Bel Canto (Patchett). The Bread-Baker's Apprentice (Reinhart), The Way to Cook (Child), On Food and Cooking (McGee), Perfect Pies and Tarts (Willan). Origami for the Connoisseur (Kasahara & Takahama). New Yorker cartoon collections, Calvin & Hobbes collections. Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature (Bridson & Haefliger). The Oxford English Dictionary.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to learn, especially about food and drink (where it comes from, finer details of preparation, etc.).

If you'd like to bring a little something from some place you've been that might go into a dinner or meal, that would be lovely.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'd love to cook with guests and vice versa. My favorite menu is stone soup: taking whatever is available or looks good and making something nourishing with it. If you're into improv style nourishment, too, we're likely to get along.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, England, France, Mexico, North Korea

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, United States