Aspiring writer & poet, psychotherapist of the analytic persuasion and rogue scholar.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

1. I like to discuss ideas 2. Writers are usually somewhat broke and hotels are too expensive and people are more interesting anyway

Interests

Philosophy East and West; West, Poetry and Poetic Theory, Mountaineering, New England Transcendentalism, Jazz, Occasional Jack Kerouac, Aesthetics, Autodidaction, Religion, Jungian Psychology

• culture
• writing
• books
• literature
• poetry
• coffee
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Jung, Pound, Joyce, Eliot, Charles Olson, Kerouac, Heraclitus, Homer, Shakespeare

Bach, Chopin, Blind Willie Johnson, Debussy, Satie, Billie Holiday, Bon Iver

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Kathmandu Nepal at 19 & taught English for 9 months

What I Can Share with Hosts

Quality discussion, authenticity, philosophy

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Norway, Spain, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Spain, United States