CURRENT MISSION

To dive in and just keep swimming....

PHILOSOPHY

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"--John Lennon

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution"--Emma Goldman

"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." –- Miriam Beard

"Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." — Lawrence Block

"Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings." –- Hodding Carter

“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." –- Henry Miller

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

After being transitory for the past few years, I'm excited to finally have an apartment and a couch for hosting and I look forward to showing travelers the Boston/Cambridge that tour books won't expose them to.
Similarly, I hope to meet interesting people in my travels and learn from them!

Interests

Music (singing and listening), elaborate vegetarian cooking, reading, politics, movies, hiking, yoga, traveling, volunteering, museums, dancing, cheap wine, good beer, board games, being outdoors, art, theater, seasons, farmers markets, unnecessarily furry dogs, documentaries, bad puns, good puns, dark humor, Muppet humor, community building

• dogs
• arts
• books
• singing
• theater
• documentaries
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• vegetarian
• yoga
• politics
• movies
• board games
• reading
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• swimming
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Disgrace, And the Band Played On, Zeitoun, To Kill a Mockingbird, My Mistress' Sparrow is Dead, Pathologies of Power, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, A Gate at the Stairs, Lolita, Middlesex, Let the Great World Spin, Death in Venice, The Language Police, and virtually anything by David Sedaris or Sarah Vowell. I love short stories. I also always have one non-fiction and one fiction book going at once.

Music: Nick Drake, Iron & Wine, Do Make Say Think, Belle & Sebastian, Regina Spektor, Animal Collective, Andrew Bird, Rufus Wainwright, Nina Simone, Mirah, Broken Social Scene, Phoenix, Anathallo, Cat Power, the Decemberists, Wilco, the XX, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, A.C. Newman, the Postal Service, the Violent Femmes, Bob Dylan, Amadou et Mariam, Bon Iver, Ani Difranco, Joanna Newsom, Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Ella and Louis duets, Dinah Washington and Brook Benton duets, Etta James, Billy Joel, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, the Beatles, Frank Sinatra

and NPR (especially Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Moth, and This American Life).

Movies: Goodbye Lenin, Thank You for Smoking, Singin' in the Rain, Annie Hall, Eternal Sunshine..., Little Miss Sunshine, Dr. Horrible, All the President's Men, Labyrinth, When Harry Met Sally, animated short films (make an effort to see all the Oscar animated shorts each year) and when I'm in the mood, semi-obscure documentaries

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've traveled a lot and have volunteered, studied, WWOOFed, and done research in South Africa, India, Thailand, Italy, and Ghana. In addition to these places, I've also lived in a bunch of different parts of the U.S. and traveled to over a dozen other countries. In each of these places, I've gained new perspectives and friends, as well as learned a huge amount about myself.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to share my love of vegetarian cooking, movies, art, politics, and books. And I've been told I shatter all the American stereotypes (hopefully that's true!)

While I'm totally independent, if you do have time, I'd love to cook you a meal, go to a bar or theater, or just walk around.

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Canada, Croatia, Dominican Republic, France, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Mozambique, Panama, Saint Lucia, South Africa, Thailand, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, British

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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