CURRENT MISSION

To find my new favorite restaurant and new favorite band and new favorite bookstore. I'll search the whole planet if I have to.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My housemate/landlord is already on the site, so we have hosted many guests. We like to feed people and take them to dinner parties and hikes.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Though we've hosted, I have yet to surf myself. It's time to change that!

Interests

A good conversation, listening to songs that grow out of the ground, and laughing.

• arts
• partying
• painting
• hiking

Music, Movies, and Books

I like authors. I want to be one. These are some of my favorite writers and thinkers:

James Alison, Margaret Atwood, Wendell Berry, Michael Chabon, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dave Eggers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rene Girard, Stanley Hauerwas, Allan Heinberg, Kazuo Ishiguro, Anne Lamott, CS Lewis, Lois Lowry, Brian McLaren, Donald Miller, Haruki Murakami, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Oliver, John Sailhamer, JD Salinger, Brian K. Vaughan, and Lauren Winner.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am pretty good at teaching abstract art to pre-schoolers and finger-painting to adults. True story.