CURRENT MISSION

Journey by faith through each day that is given to me as a gift to open and explore. Face the challenges that come with the choice to live a life of faith and help those who enter into my journey of faith to travel their own.

ABOUT ME

I am a 63-year-old divorced male who has hosted 18 international students and have had 18 foster sons over the years. I adopted a 15-year-old biracial son who is now 29 years old with me and another friend Peter. I have a queen size sofa bed in our sitting room and a couch in the living room available for someone else to share. I use to run the only free will breakfast diner in the Southcoast area of Massachusetts. Now I spend my spare time helping veterans, their spouses, widows, and children get benefits they deserve and have earned because they made the choice to serve our country. I am a people person who enjoys meeting new people. I am very well known for playing an 11 string guitar, writing music and opening my apartment to others for various times and reasons.

PHILOSOPHY

Every day we travel by faith and make choices. Depending on the choices we make we suffer the consequences of our choices but we can always change our choices and consequences as we travel by faith through each day.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Offering my couches/beds for others and thinking of doing some couch surfing in October in Michigan so as to re-connect with former members of a youth group and a hockey league I began 26 years ago.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couch surfed in Michigan successfully.

Interests

Meeting People, playing cribbage, crocheting, guitar playing, song writing, re-enactment of Bible characters/stories,writing, computer games, being in local theater productions, recruiting people for nonprofit events,networking,making 3-day spaghetti sauces and bowling.

• writing
• theater
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• running
• socializing
• guitar
• surfing
• bowling

Music, Movies, and Books

My personal philosophy is that we are all here on earth for a reason and we meet others to help us face the challenges that arise as we journey by faith through each day or we meet people so we can help them through the challenges they face as they journey by faith through each day. We never know what each day will present itself with but I have known and am a good friend of the author of our lives who is eager to support us as we journey by faith through each day we are given as a present to unwrap and enjoy.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watch the sun come up on the Grand Canyon, attend a wedding in China, being installed as a minister in the United Church of Christ, seeing lives change one breakfast meal at a time and help start the Sole Food Foot Clinic

What I Can Share with Hosts

The challenges and adventures of traveling by faith through 63 years. The journey has been an interesting one that has taken me to live in Maine, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, back to Michigan, Massachusetts and to visit the Netherlands, Germany, China and hopefully some day to France , Ukraine and Italy to reunite with former international host sons.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Germany, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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