"Nunca tomo café en casa. Para mí café es 'en el café'. Es también una adicción. Tiene un sentido. Es un respaldo, una protección. Cuando tomo café quedo invulnerable. Como si me tocara un dios. Esta infusión tiene hechizo. Ayuda al ensueño y la distensión." - Marosa Di Giorgio

Interests

travel, reading, running, foreign languages, ESL instruction, film, writing, lacrosse, hiking, antiques, tea, vegan baking

• writing
• coffee
• baking
• vegan
• running
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• lacrosse
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, Infinite Jest, anything by Faulker, Anna Karenina, Great Expectations, Housekeeping, Mrs. Dalloway, The Catcher in the Rye, Seymour: An Introduction, Lincoln in the Bardo, A Death in the Family, Go Tell It on the Mountain, The Peregrine, The Moviegoer, Winesburg Ohio, and lots of mysteries

Movies: The Third Man, Conte d'été (or any Eric Rohmer film), El espíritu de la colmena, The Thin Man, all things Hitchcock, The 400 Blows, The Big Sleep, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, lots and lots of film noir, Anatomy of a Murder, It's a Wonderful Life, Charade, Casablanca, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Aguirre, Paris Texas, George Washington, Moonlight, Tree of Life, Much Ado about Nothing (the Joss Whedon version), the list goes on and on . . .

Music: Mogwai, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Crosby Stills and Nash, The Beatles, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Ella Fitzgerald, Kendrick Lamar, and many more

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Bahamas, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United States