CURRENT MISSION

to live a life without regrets

ABOUT ME

i live here with my husband, seth and our dog, henry. we moved to Ithaca in July 2012 from Vancouver, BC. before that we were living on the east coast of the US, so in many ways it's great to be back.

i am strongly committed to living an environmentally sustainable life. i like to laugh but sometimes i am too serious at times to remember this. i like to make things more than i like to buy things. i like to see the beauty in little things like a lost glove on the ground.

PHILOSOPHY

i want to live a life without regrets. i'm pursuing things that interest me and i have hope that this will lead to a defined path. i believe that everyone deserves to be happy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I offer my couch/sofabed. When the need arises I hope to take the offer from another kind soul.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

through a college study abroad program in 9 months i lived with 13 host families. they all graciously offered up their homes and lives to me. i've stayed on many couches of friends and friends of friends in my journeys thoughout the states. im now making my own nest and would like to return the favor.

Interests

vegan cooking and baking, making bagels, brewing beer, making wine, making ginger beer, kombucha, kimchi, sauerkraut, binding books, taking photographs, commuting by bike, minimizing car-usage, time banking, yoga, meditating, hiking, running, swimming, knitting, basket weaving, growing plants, splitting wood, stacking wood, and of course travelling!

• dogs
• books
• beauty
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• baking
• vegan
• yoga
• running
• traveling
• homebrewing
• knitting
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• swimming
• study abroad
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

books: the time travellers wife, god-shaped hole, omnivore's dilema, cradle to cradle, the griffin and sabine series, tom robbins, mary oliver, pablo neruda

movies: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, rushmore,amelie, 10 questions, waitress, casablanca, strictly ballroom, it happened one night, all of the Thin Man movies, all of The Road To movies

music: old time music from the 20s, 30s and 40s on this great Maine radio station, WYAR, 88.9. also sufjan stevens, destroyer, the beatles, the mountain goats, mirah, jason anderson, the magnetic fields, sigor ros, the national, princeton, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, peter bjorn and john, jens lekman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i feel very fortunate that many things come to mind. seeing tea covered hills as far as the eye can see in darjeeling as my husband and i began a 2 1/2 month tea learning trip through india and bangladesh. getting to meet so many of the workers, especially those very strong and amazing women. i can't look at a cup of tea and not think about the sweat and hard labor of so many women that i'll never meet.

Teach, Learn, Share

i love to make useable beautiful objects. i love to make whole foods from scratch, from crackers to sauerkraut to bagels and beer. and i love to teach this to others and to share the products. i'd like to learn how to play this guitar i've been moving around with me for years. i'd like to practice my spanish that feels like it's wilting and withering.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bangladesh, Bolivia, Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Saint Lucia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Costa Rica, United States

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