CURRENT MISSION

Make great movies. Raise great kids. Enlighten. Empower. Be free.

ABOUT ME

We are an adventurous young British/American family of five. We love attachment parenting, filmmaking, organic food (but we're not fanatical), traveling, spirituality, alternative health, good discussions, classical and world music, sun.

Perché sono iscritto su Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We have surfed a few times and hosted once so far.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have couchsurfed in Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, Mobile, and Minneapolis - all wonderful experiences.

Interessi

Helen: Entrepreneurship. Documentary filmmaking. Natural birth, parenting and living. Alternative health. Eating yummy desserts. Language/linguistics. Anthropology. French.

Orion: Filmmaking and writing screenplays. Watching and discussing movies. Apple. Tech news. Economics. Composing music and lyrics. Reading fiction.

Cara (3): Being outdoors. Pretend play, especially pretending to make phone calls. Changing clothes. Singing. Talking. Writing, drawing, painting.

James (Almost 2): Vehicles of every kind, real or toy. Animals. Playing with water. Independent exploration. Pretending to cook.

Edward (6 mths): Sitting up, exploring everything in reach, trying to figure out crawling.

• animals
• writing
• singing
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• dining
• cooking
• desserts
• organic food
• clothing
• technology
• news
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• painting
• drawing
• music
• world music
• outdoor activities
• anthropology
• economics
• entrepreneurship
• software

Musica, film e libri

Movies: Romantic comedies and mainstream action movies are ones that we can usually agree on. Orion likes the more manly stuff. :-)

Music: Classical, soundtracks, Enya, Izzy, Celtic, Indian especially bhangra and bhajans, Russian, Hebrew, all sorts of world music actually.

Authors: Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, Martha Beck, Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Non-fiction books about business, entrepreneurship, success, psychology. Helen's all-time favorite: Expecting Adam by Martha Beck.

Una cosa incredibile che ho fatto

Giving birth to our three children was pretty amazing!

Insegna, impara, condividi

Orion can teach filmmaking, photography, how to use your Mac, video editing, WordPress, Adobe software. He can share enjoyment of excellent scifi and fantasy novels, and discuss spirituality.

Helen can explain the nuances of English to non-native speakers and teach beginner French, share information and experiences about natural pregnancy, birth, babyhood, alternative health approaches and remedies, vaccinations, unconditional parenting, attachment parenting, babywearing, breastfeeding. As a native Englishwoman she can also answer your questions about Britain.