CURRENT MISSION

Get done what I want to do and see what else I'd like to do.

ABOUT ME

I like to help other people cook.
As a kid I had a doorknob collection, a tire collection, a shingle collection, and had recurring dreams about tires and floor tiles -- Just being honest.
I appreciate things that are simple, barebones, durable, and made to be fixed, but I do like to fiddle with odd, intricate, complicated gadgets and electronics. However, I don't see the sense in relying on them or forming an irreversibly dependent society around them. This, obviously, is not exclusively the way I live, but something to aim for.

PHILOSOPHY

I gain energy from a long lived purpose that invigorates me and improves the world. Something I'll never get tired of and something I can always build on.

Interesses

I enjoy backpacking in the mountains, canoeing the BWCA and area WI rivers, biking around town, sailing my old 18' IL boat, and rebuilding my previously-condemned house. I like the history of residential building and architecture and I collect and restore antique radios. I veg garden, fix stuff, experiment with the things I can't fix, and contra dance when there is time. Lastly, I love to travel extremely low budget with minimal planning, especially with people who can see the wisdom in that sort of flexibility!

• architecture
• dancing
• cooking
• electronics
• gardening
• boating
• traveling
• cycling
• backpacking
• canoeing
• sailing
• history
• rivers
• mountains

Músicas, Filmes e Livros

NPR's "The Current" and classical network, Community Radio WORT, Democracy Now and BBC news, dub, Latin and other world music, some kinds of folk music, and bluegrass. Random examples: They Might Be Giants, The Shins, Uncle Earl, Animal Collective, The Police, The Ditty Bops, and Screamin Cyn Cyn and the Pons if I'm in the right bad mood.

Books-- Dharma Bums, Earth Abides, Blue Highways, project books.

TV: we have one. meh.

Ensine, Aprenda, Compartilhe

Teach-
Greenbuilding, sailing
Learn-
Better Spanish, world issues
Share-
Whatever I know about Madison

Países que Visitei

Mexico

Países em que Morei

United States