CURRENT MISSION

Mission: To learn, understand, discuss, contemplate.

ABOUT ME

I have taught at-risk students to use Yiddish words such as "schlep" and "chutzpah" in complete sentences. My favorite possession is a picture, sent to me from the original photographer, of military students reading Alan Ginsberg's "Howl". I spent a considerable amount of my youth pretending to do voice-overs of kung-fu movies, and I have spent a considerable part of my adult life trying new things, and still enjoying kung-fu movies.

I come from a tightly knit family in which a sense of humor has been a must. For people who know the jingle, I am related to the guy who did the voice of Timer, who says, "I hanker for a hunka cheese".

PHILOSOPHY

Take a risk. Fall flat on your face. Get up. Repeat process. Eventually, you'll learn to crawl, walk, run, sprint, and rest. Help others along the way. And eat buckets of chocolate.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am just getting started.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Informally, often. As part of the Couchsurfing community, I'm new here. Looking forward to meeting new people.

Interests

Documentaries on dinosaurs, the universe, and human evolution. I study education, so I like learning about how people teach and learn.

• culture
• writing
• poetry
• documentaries
• dancing
• education
• chocolate
• cheese
• running
• sprinting
• movies
• reading
• knitting
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: True Grit, Goodbye Lenin, Midnight in Paris. Music: Tina Turner, Miles Davis, Grateful Dead.
Books: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. John Cheever's Collected Short Stories. Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Amazing thing that I have seen/heard: my 103 year old aunt cracking jokes. Amazing thing I've done: Taught a friend to dance salsa, who then met her life partner at a salsa event.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach poetry writing, salsa, and (academically), the relationship between language and culture. I'm curious about the world, so I enjoy learning what others have to share from their experiences.