CURRENT MISSION

Live life like it's as exciting as fiction (cuz it really is).

ABOUT ME

Low-tech junkie figuring out where I've been, where I am, and where I'm going. I love to tell stories through writing especially in a sci-fi or fantasy context, watch small creatures (or big ones), forage food, help raise kids, and archive obscure things.

I love stories in just about any medium, books, graphic novels, webcomics, songs. I've lived in Costa Rica, Japan, China for a year each, and innumerable US states for one year to five. Namely Louisiana, Georgia, Colorado, North Dakota, Minnesota, New York, and Wisconsin (okay, so that's not really innumerable).

PHILOSOPHY

Live, trip, grow.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

So far I've been a surfer. I typically live in communal situations where hosting isn't an option, but some day I intend to pay it forward.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My very first informal couchsurfing experience was when I was on a crafts tour through a hardware store, I'd just arrived in NYC and my school had neglected to assign me the housing I'd asked for. I asked anyone if they had a couch because I really had no idea where I was going to stay that night, and made a really great friend! Now I've been able to find hosts wherever I've gone.

Interests

Stories, people-watching, wilderness, hunter-gatherer lifeway, writing, singing

• writing
• books
• singing
• dining
• crafts
• technology
• hunting

Music, Movies, and Books

Most recently: Pamela Dean, Tsutomu Nihei, Susumu Hirasawa, Lois McMaster Bujold, Derrick Jensen

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Lived in the woods for a year with up to 25 adults and 17 children, eventually only making fire by friction with no matches, foraging large portions of our own food, moving from tents to bark and grass lodges, and using no modern tools except knives and tomahawks. Also, during that, spending untold hours over the course of five months negotiating with a seven year old that his boots really needed to be dried since we were living outside in sub-freezing weather.

- Hiked through Ecuador during Kichwa protests of American trade agreements.

- When I was living in Kyoto, Japan, I got on a bus. These buses lurch forward enough to knock you back, so you have to be prepared. I was latched on to one of the handle bars, but this little old man in front of me wasn't holding onto anything and started tipping back like chair. He would have smashed his head on the floor. He fell into me and I held on to him and the bar for dear life as we tilted to 45 degrees until the bus finally reentered normal gravity. That was the first time in my life I ever got to save somebody.

Teach, Learn, Share

Sci-fi and fantasy writing, academic writing, editing, bowdrill fire making, naalbinding

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