CURRENT MISSION

Making my Nashvegas home home again

ABOUT ME

Originally from Music City, USA, I recently left Portland, OR where I lived for 5 1/2 years (I still have great friends there).

I just returned to Nashville, as of 10/08, from a 6 month jaunt through Europe - thanks in large part to Couch Surfing and WWOOF (volunteering on organic farms)!

Community is important to me - either by living with others and sharing resources and other parts of our lives or simply by being part of a conscious, caring, creative and responsible group of folks.

Creativity, expressing ourselves, art, celebrating life - not sure how else to say it - are essential to my soul's well-being. So I am usually up for live music or dancing/acting like a fool!

PHILOSOPHY

Live it up!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couch-surf ho in Europe - now it's time to reciprocate! (at least through offering coffee, drink). Later (or sooner, depending on when I find a job and my own place to live) I will offer couch space.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed on couches, floors, mattress pads, inflatables, hammocks, etc. I have hosted a bit - before joining CS.

Interests

Writing songs on guitar (depending on if I am disciplined enough to follow through), politics local and global, eating rich food (including but not limited to cookies and milk), running, hiking, the occasional pick-up Ultimate Frisbee game, biking, dancing, reading.

• arts
• writing
• acting
• dancing
• dining
• coffee
• yoga
• marathon
• running
• coach
• drinking
• politics
• reading
• music
• live music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• languages
• volunteering
• wwoof

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: 500 Minutes to Christ - Poe Ballantine; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safron Foer. Milan Kundera - the Book of Laughter and Forgetting. Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle. movies: many. Music: singer-song-writer stuff like Bruce Cockburn, Steve Earl, Patty Griffin; also alternative, like Yo La Tengo, Wilco, old REM; Indy Pop, like Death Cab for Cutie, Laura Veirs, dance music, the song titles of which I don't know the names.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swam in chilly NW Pacific waters, participated in Naked Bike Ride Portland, 2007 (it was a balmy night - I had to find some way to cool off!), ran a marathon in 2002, finishing before the coach of the Tennessee Titans; paraglided in Eastern Czech Republic (Thank you Petr, CS Host in Zlin!)

Teach, Learn, Share

How to throw a frisbee overhand, some Catholic stuff in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, English, a few yoga poses, guitar chords. I would like to learn more French, German, Spanish and other languages.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Nicaragua, United States

•