Currently working at private, Catholic school.

I have a 12 year-old daughter who is my everything. I spend as much time as possible near the ocean or doing something outdoors. I am also working on my PhD in Mind Body Medicine/Integrative Mental Health, so I spend a lot of time reading scholarly books and doing research.

PHILOSOPHY

"I promise myself to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind; to talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet; to make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them; to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true; to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best; to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own; to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future; to wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet; to give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others; to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble; to think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds; to live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is in me."
--Christian D. Larson

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have hosted 15 times, surfed twice.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have hosted 15 guests and surfed twice, once in Colorado and once in Massanutten. My guests have been from France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Canada, Korea, the Netherlands, Germany, and the US.

Interests

Art, photography, design, movies, music, travel, fashion, books, children, people, nature, fitness.

• arts
• books
• design
• fashion
• photography
• fitness
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• medicine

Music, Movies, and Books

A: Apocolypto/Avett Brothers/A Bout de Souffle/Amos Lee
B: Bon Iver/Beck/Band of Horses/Bible/Blink 182/the Black Keys
C: Cake/Cyrano de Bergerac/Common/the Cure/Cracker/the Cars
D: DeVotcha/Death Cab/Dead Poets Society/Dwight Yoakam
E: Everything but the Girl/Elvis/Emerson/Elizabeth/E.T.
F: Fleet Foxes/Fargo/Feist/Fiona Apple/Footloose/Flashdance
G: Grizzly Bear/Goodfellas/Marvin Gaye/Gang Starr
H: Half Broke Horses/Herman Hesse/the Heavy/High Fidelity
I: Iron & Wine/Imogen Heap/John Irving/Into the Wild/Il Postino
J: Jane's Addiction/Juno/Johnny Cash/Joan of Arc: the Messenger
K: Kings of Leon/the Killers/Kate Nash/the Kooks/Kite Runner
L: Lonesome Dove/Life is Beautiful/Little Bee/the Lovely Bones
M: Me Talk Pretty One Day/Marionette/Mumford & Sons/Mingus
N: Pablo Neruda/Anais Nin/Nouvelle Vague/Naked Gun
O: OK Go/O Brother Where Art Thou/Othello/Outkast
P: Pixies/Plain White Ts/Prince/Palace Brothers/Dorothy Parker
Q: Quixotic/Quentin Tarantino/Quicksilver Big Wave Invitational
R: Ray LaMontagne/Rihanna/Regina Spektor/Rilo Kiley/R.E.M.
S: Sean Hayes/the Secret History/Sleigh Bells/Secretary/the Shins
T: The Tao of Pooh/H.D. Thoreau/There Will be Blood
U: Under the Tuscan Sun/U2/Under the Banner of Heaven
V: the Virgin Suicides/the Velvet Underground/Vivaldi/Vermeer
W: White Rabbits/the White Stripes/White Oleander/Woody Allen
X: the xx/X-Men:Origins
Y: Yolanda Be Cool & Dcup/YeaSayer
Z: Zeppelin/Ziggy Stardust/Zappa

The good stuff--you know. Why waste time on anything else?

I like all kinds of food, except meatloaf.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'll tell you when you come visit.

Teach, Learn, Share

Currently learning about Mind-Body Medicine and teaching about plants.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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