CURRENT MISSION

Recklessly seeking life experiences.

ABOUT ME

Georgia farmgirl turned diehard Brooklynite turned sunburned island woman turned schoolmistress turned cowgirl turned burner. By turns deeply pragmatic, impulsive, abstract, tender, abrupt. Perpetually hungry, both for food and adventure. Likewise prone to feeding both those appetites in others.

PHILOSOPHY

Follow your belly to the green pasture.
Lie down in the sun's dapple.
Life is not as dangerous
as mother said.
It is more dangerous,
more wide.

Interests

activism, agriculture, appalachia, banyon trees, beekeeping, boats, books, bourbon, burning man, cooking, compersion, design, ecology, ephemera, etymology, feminism, fluidity, food policy, lemons, love, monkeys, motherlands, nomadicism, oceans, paradox, phenomenology, play, repetition, risks, scarves, scrabble, silence, soup, sloths, summer, sustainability, upaya

• writing
• books
• singing
• design
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• recipes
• yoga
• gardening
• agriculture
• ecology
• etymology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Frida, Baraka, Across the Universe, Do the Right Thing, Amadeus, The Hours, Revolutionary Road, Great Expectations, Jarhead, Winged Migration, The Secret of Roan Inish, Paprika, Ben Hur, The Long Hot Summer, Planet Earth

Music: K'Naan, Matt Bauer, The Books, Kaki King, Jolie Holland, Frou Frou, Mozart, Juana Molina, Thomas Newman, Lisa Sokolov, Air, Philip Glass, Outkast, Laura Veirs, Fatboy Slim, Lauryn Hill, The Ditty Bops, Brown Bird

Books: House of Leaves, The Caged Owl, Mating, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, V., Half-Lives, Small Wonder, The Red Letter Plays, A Wrinkle in Time, Don't Think of an Elephant!, The Kin of Ata Are Waiting For You, Prodigal Summer, A Hole is to Dig, The Real Thing, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Botany of Desire, Funnyhouse of a Negro, For Her Own Good, The Good Cookie, Blood Meridian, Griffin & Sabine, True Grits, Essays by Judith Butler, The Three Musketeers

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I traveled across America aboard a double-decker upside-down school bus with an organic garden on the top. We gave away armfuls of apples in New York City, slept under the stars in Iowa cornfields, hurtled down the Rockies billowing black smoke, broke down crossing the salt flats, and wandered barefoot through San Francisco - all while petitioning to get a garden growing on the White House Lawn. Now, one does.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to cook cuisines from around the world; I'm an expert in food issues & sustainable agriculture (urban and rural); I'm a strong writer and photographer. Things I have taught in the past include English as a second language, voice & speech, cooking, and yoga.

Things I want to learn: the harmonica; beekeeping; Spanish; cooking techniques and recipes from other cultures; how to build a straw-bale house; various kinds of fermentation; expertise on esoteric and niche subjects.

I love to sing and will be happy if you sing with me.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Ireland, Slovakia, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Hungary, Nicaragua, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States