CURRENT MISSION

Appreciate everything more, and require less.

ABOUT ME

After a long, beautiful era in Brooklyn, we just moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. I teach writing classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and sell books at Porter Square Books. My partner Peter is at MIT, where he studies mushroom cultivation.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With gusto.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's been wonderful thus far.

Interests

A creative and rich style of life full of good people. I love above all to learn about other people's interests and projects. Also very into biking, hiking, ashtanga yoga, cooking vegetarian feasts (bean dips galore), gardens. Obsessed with film as well.

• writing
• books
• education
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• cycling
• hiking
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Films by:
Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Peter Greenaway, some old Godard and Truffaut and Rohmer, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Wes Anderson, Abdellatif Kechiche, Michael Haneke.

Books by:
Lydia Davis, David Markson, Joan Didion, Per Petterson, Nabokov, Clarice Lispector, Gertrude Stein, Witold Gombrowicz, Roberto Bolano, George Orwell, Kafka, Tom Robbins, Georges Perec, Hermann Hesse, James Salter, Knausgaard, Jenny Offill, Elizabeth Gilbert and a smorgas of buddhism/meditation/yoga books.

Music:
Jazz and Bossa Nova, Beirut, The Beach Boys, The Watersons, CocoRosie, Kate Bush, Arthur Russell, Yann Tiersen, the Kanak, Joan Armtrading, Tallest Man on Earth.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Getting to know my young niece and nephews.

Teach, Learn, Share

I don't think this can be predicted. Let's see what we can teach/learn/share.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States