75 year-old, retired professor; active volunteer as spoken-word artist; learning Russian; editor and publisher of textbooks and anthologies:
STORIES FROM THE OTHER SIDE, editions 3, 4, 5 and 6; 2004 - 2012

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Travel opportunities and to share my comfy condo with international travelers.

Interests

Spoken-word poetry and performance poetry in open mics; publishing my own collection of recent poems; helping E>S>L> students with English

• literature
• ballet dancing
• italian food
• chinese food
• live music
• tennis
• mountain biking
• biking
• poetry slam
• art museums
• muse
• russian literature

Music, Movies, and Books

biographies of LGBT painters and writers; Federico Garcia Lorca and Salvador Dali. Reading biographies of Tennessee Williams, American playwright; also of Eugene O'Neill.
Love Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Scriabin and other Russian composers.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveled to the Soviet Union in 1961 at the age of 19. Wrote a narrative, published poem about the trip: ''A PILGRIMAGE''; Traveled to Haiti, W.I., as a missionary 10 times.

Teach, Learn, Share

COOKING; languages other than English

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Russian Federation