CURRENT MISSION

Plant a garden in my windowsill.

ABOUT ME

I am a freelance writer and editor living and working in Paris. I founded a literary arts magazine in 2008 - Her Royal Majesty - and love creating community through art.

PHILOSOPHY

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our own life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, & find the globe granite underfoot & strewn with cutting flints."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have lived in Paris for nearly five years and walk and ride my bike everywhere. I can recommend the best coffee shops and pizza places, and the boutiques that sell paper lamps in the shapes of zebras.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Meeting Couchsurfers in Halifax, where I was living to go to university, made me remember that my city could be a destination.

Интересы

Being in the city, being away from the city, writing, art, music without words, music with words, learning.

• arts
• writing
• coffee
• gardening
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• freelancing

Музыка, кино и книги

Movies: Everything from Agnes Varda to Woody Allen.

Books: John Steinbeck, Roberto Bolano, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Jonathan Franzen, Roald Dahl, Alice Munro, John Updike.

Классная вещь, которую я сделал(-а)

Standing on the ridge of Þingvellir, the ridge between the European and North American tectonic plates, on my way to Paris. I was fogged-up and wet and, both literally and metaphorically, in between worlds.

Где я побывал(-а)

Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Morocco

Где я жил(-а)

Canada, France