CURRENT MISSION

To find things that make me smile.

ABOUT ME

I'm fairly simple. I love books. I love language. I want to hear the stories that people carry around inside of them. I like contradictions, those small details that pleasantly surprise you, like long-haul truckers who write poetry or college professors who read romance novels. Beautiful things make me happy, and by beautiful I mean in the most unconventional way. If you make me laugh until I cry, I will adore you forever.

PHILOSOPHY

Each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

Interests

Books, writing, anything that tells me a story, gardening, seeing new things, learning people, finding things that surprise and delight me.

• writing
• books
• poetry
• gardening

Music, Movies, and Books

I read anything eagerly and voraciously. Novels, short stories, biographies, non-fiction...you name it. I love poetry and my personal favorite is R.M. Rilke, closely followed by Pablo Neruda and Sylvia Plath. I like pretty much any music, but it has to have good lyrics, so consequently I lean toward singer/songwriters and indie rock. Movies have to be smart and well written. I've been known to walk out of a theater if the writing has too many cliches...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Moved to a foreign country where I didn't speak the language and didn't know a soul.