CURRENT MISSION

Finding joy in small things

ABOUT ME

I've been living in Portland, Oregon for a while now and I am continually hunting for more pockets of fun and community.

PHILOSOPHY

Trying to love people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So far, I do not have a couch to offer... but I would like to stay on people's couches! Though I haven't travelled too much, when I have, I have most appreciated staying with people. I find it the best way to engage a place and to have a real exchange, to give some of yourself and to get something back from people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In Senegal, I lived with a family for 2 months. It was truly a challenge, especially in the beginning, to become acclamated to such a different lifestyle. But I found living with them (about 15 people in a 3 bedroom house) and building relationships really connected me to the country and the people.

Interests

postcards and letters, public transportation, pub theaters, bicycles, intentional community, literature, cultural studies, race and ethnic studies, picnics

• literature
• pub crawls
• hunting
• skydiving
• cultural studies
• ethnic studies

Music, Movies, and Books

Solomon Burke, Belle and Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, Of Montreal, "Annie Hall", "Blood Simple", "Chinatown", "Notorious", "Good Will Hunting", "Better Off Dead", Another Country by James Baldwin, The Assitant by Bernard Malamud, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, poetry by Jeffrey McDaniel and so on.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Skydiving when I was 20... Interviewing women writers in Senegal... Taking the Greyhound from Tucson AZ to Oregon(31 hours)...

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Italy, Netherlands, Senegal, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States