CURRENT MISSION

Getting published, helping family members get to where they need to be

ABOUT ME

Peace Corps volunteer, Poland 1990-92. Armenia, 1993. Taught business in Russia, Iceland, Germany, and Japan. Taught English in Poland, China, Mexico, and now in Kansas. I read, write (am published!), and travel in the summers.

PHILOSOPHY

practicing random kindness and looking at the funny side of life. Mostly.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I haven't been active here but plan to be more so in the future.

兴趣

Writing (fiction, poetry, memoir); movies; scuba diving; cooking (and eating)

• writing
• poetry
• cooking
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• scuba diving
• business
• teaching
• volunteering

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Saw a mama grizzly and her cub in Yellowstone Park, just walking across the road in late October.
Picked up a (male) hitchhiker...in the U.S., that is just not done by women traveling alone, but it was January and I thought he might freeze to death. I'm still alive to tell the tale.

教，学，和分享

I'm an English teacher...can proofread, edit, give gentle critiques of poetry and prose; answer grammar questions if "American rules" are OK!

我游览过的国家

Armenia, France, Greece

我居住过的国家

China, Germany, Iceland, Mexico, Poland, Russian Federation, United States

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