CURRENT MISSION

living life by the seat of my pants

ABOUT ME

I like lots of stuff, pick a subject. I like to dance, laugh, hang out with my kids, eat delicious food, have adventures, read, drink and smoke. I love music, history, walking, & seeing beauty.

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe Diem. Live life fully.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am interested in meeting and helping travellers and traveling inexpensively myself.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I love putting people up and especially travellers from faroff lands with interesting stories.

Interests

Very vast subject, let's talk...Trad-fused punk music, swimming in the Yuba river, Hurley(the Irish Sport), Enigmas, camping, hiking, hot springs, Delicious food, wine, Trees, mushroom hunting, temple dancing, fire dancing, Travel, Vikings, Mythology, Costuming, Corsetry, Painting, sculpting. Languages. Old songs, and singing them with friends. Burlesque. ART. Ancient rites. Sewing, spinning, weaving, embroidery. Istanbul. All History. Sketching. Sweating. Keeping lost arts ALIVE, reading, playing my bodhran, permaculture, herbal medicine, passionate kisses, fiber arts, basketry, Greek pottery. Sexy people who are not afraid to live, gardening, green building and cuddling. Not necessarily in that order.

• arts
• singing
• sketching
• beauty
• dancing
• belly dancing
• dining
• wine
• walking
• drinking
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• pottery
• painting
• drawing
• music
• punk music
• hiking
• camping
• hunting
• sports
• swimming
• history
• languages
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

LIVE music, Gogol Bordello, Garmarna, KILA, Pogues, Balkan Beat Box, Flogging Molly, Lasher Keen, Kirsty MacColl, Manu Negra, Leningrad, Amadou et Mariam, Solas, Dervish, Old Blind Dogs, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Siouxsie, Portishead, Johnny Cash(now there's a man), Tribe called Quest, Karan Kasey, Josephine Baker, Kate Rusby, Christy Moore, Red Elvises, Nick Cave, Billy Holiday, The Shins, Bjork, U2, Beck, Be good Tanyas, Louis Armstrong, Faun Fables, Macy Gray, Adam Ant, Bauhaus, Dittybops, The Waifs, Pixies, Morcheeba, Manu Chao, Sinead O'Connor, Ella & Louis, David Bowie, Beastie Boys, The Clash, The Cure, Edith Piaf, Planxty, Silly Sisters, Asylum Street Spankers. Old war tunes. Tradional music from Morocco, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, France, Romania, Greece, Brazil, the Balkans, Spain, Egypt and probably more places I haven't heard yet. The list goes on...I REALLY love music. Especially passionate music.

I love going out to the movies, so if anyone is interested...? Beowulf and Grendel, I love period flicks done well, Dog Soldiers, 300, Everything is Illuminated, Princess Bride, Straight to Hell, Serenity, Elizabeth, Queen Margot, Henry the V, Lord of the Rings(all 3 uncut, Dangerous Beauty, A Room with a View. Too many to mention. Spaghetti westerns. Tears of the black tiger!!!!!!!See it! El Gadjo Dilo, Latcho Drom. I love foriegn films. Also obscure and brilliant ones. I am always open to suggestions. Also films by Terri Gilliam: Brazil, Baron Munchausen. Monty Python, Kirasawa flicks. Princess Mononoke, Howl's Castle.

Gates of Fire, Warlord trilogy, Hermann Hesse, Art of love-Ovid, The Viking Sagas, The Iliad, Asterix and Obelisk, Books by Morgan Llewelyn, Isabelle Allende, Christopher Moore, Bernard Cornwell, Neil Gaiman, Charles de Lint. Heart of the Fire, Trinity-Leon Uris, Juniper and Wise Child, by Monica Furlong, Shakespeare. Historical Fiction, science Fiction, books on cobbing, permaculture, and gardening.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have given birth twice.

Teach, Learn, Share

Belly Dancing, embroidery, drawing.