CURRENT MISSION

To find the best brioche pralinée.

ABOUT ME

I currently teach English at the Université de Rouen, but when I'm not in the classroom....

I like bike riding in the city and the country. I live hanging out in kitchens, with people. I think they are the most natural living room. I can take naps anywhere, and have recently discovered that when things are overwhelming, it's best to fall asleep. I'm interested in the good life, and this usually means pie.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I began hosting and surfing around Europe while living in Budapest many years ago. I continued with a little hosting when I moved back to Santa Cruz, and Berkeley California. Now I am living and working in France, and it's the same story.

Interests

history, memory, dioramas, sandwiches!, salty black licorice, fromage de chevre, old pictures, home movies, the industrial revolution, french revolution, picnics, parks, paper boats, sailing, bike rides, stories, nostalgia, hiking, lakes, homegrown tomatoes, and folk dancing. Listening to the French all around me, making breakfast count, and poems.

• poetry
• dancing
• breakfast
• movies
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• sailing
• history
• parks
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

Annie Hall, The Lives of Others, Hitchcock, Rushmore, Jens Lekman, Bob Dylan, the Mountain Goats, Jonathan Richman, the Magnetic Fields, Nina Simone. In the Night Kitchen, Slaughterhouse Five, the Diary of Adrian Mole, Catcher in the Rye, Master & Margarita, Soviet History From the Beginning to the End. Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse.
Mysteries on tape.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

All Saint's Day in Poland, but as seen at night in a cemetery in Krakow. So many beautiful glowing colored lights in the dark.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Hungary

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