CURRENT MISSION

Logical flights of fancy

ABOUT ME

What you see is what you get. I am without artifice. On a journey to learn how to be true to myself while still serving others. I've a wicked sense of humor, which helps take the edge off the deep issues of the human condition that i address.

PHILOSOPHY

If you're not making a difference what are you here for? And â

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Lovely time surfing in Saint John, NB, Canoe Cove, PEI and Truro, NS in 2008. Northern Virginia October 2009. Maine in September 2010. New Hampshire July 2011

Interests

Systems thinking, psychoneuroimmunology, taoism/the way, midwifery, locus of control. Religion and politics past same ol' same ol'. I like to write, I like to write, I like to write. Listen to good music, drink good wine and Guinness.

• wine
• drinking
• politics
• music
• canoeing
• surfing
• history
• religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Serpent and the Goddess by Mary Condren, Tao of Physics and Turning Point by Capra, Bearing Meaning by Kuhn, PUSHED by Jennifer Block. Music-Irish Trad, Hawaiian, Jerry jeff Walker, Slaid Cleaves and all things Texas, Missy Higgins, Tracy Chapman, Vishten. Movies-Matrix, Dead Poets, Magdalen Sisters, Monty Python. Eddie Izzard, Steven Lynch are too damn funny.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Recipient of a fellowship award that is affording me to write the history of Virginia midwifery.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you how to fix some of your aches and pains.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Ireland, Mexico, Philippines, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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