I read and I know things.

Not currently traveling, but if you're in Houston and want to meet up / nerd out, drop a line here!

Drug- and alcohol-free, but don't mind if you do.

Interests

Strangers with stories
Getting to know the city from the ground up

• books
• postmodern art
• dining
• gardening
• boxing
• film
• botany
• fiction
• international food
• baroque
• intersectional feminism
• horticulture
• postcolonial studies

Music, Movies, and Books

The White Album, by Joan Didion
Bad Behavior, by Mary Gaitskill
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, Morgan Parker
Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson
Dream Jungle, Jessica Hagedorn
Faces in the Crowd, Valeria Luiselli
Autobiography of Red, Anne Carson
Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges

Days of Being Wild, Wong Karwai
Henry Fool, Hal Hartley
Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I grew a hibiscus from a little shrub in a quart container to a seven-foot-tall plant-beast and transported it between apartments in a wagon. (She will not be accompanying me.)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I have a sideline hustle as an editor. Am willing to go over short pieces of writing for my host, gratis.
Dog-, cat-, and houseplant-whisperer
Sous-chef skills

Countries I’ve Visited

Japan, Philippines

Countries I’ve Lived In

Northern Mariana Islands