CURRENT MISSION

To be.

ABOUT ME

To be brief: I'm quiet, but I love everything. I write; poetry and short stories, and I'm trying to write a novel. I'm a former English teacher who has taught in New York City and the United Arab Emirates, as well as a mentor in Lancaster, PA. After a hiatus from couchsurfing I'm interested in exploring the world again!

PHILOSOPHY

Kindness to others, and empathy for them, is the least we can offer the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I mainly mooch. I lived in Pittsburgh, and nobody wants to go to Pittsburgh! So instead I took advantage of generous hosts in far more interesting locales.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with a couple folks in Portland when I was hitch-hiking and was desperately in need of a place to stay (nights can get cold in the Northwest, even in summertime it seems...). Also stayed with a wonderful young lady in Kyoto, she was Lithuanian and spoke beautiful English.

Interests

Writing, travelling, reading, cooking, drinking, music, song, wildness, wilderness, loveliness.

• writing
• poetry
• dancing
• cooking
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• teaching
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Dead Man, Fight Club, 25th Hour, American History X, Garden State, Citizen Kane, The Lady from Shanghai, Touch of Evil, you know what pretty much anything from Orson Welles, etc. etc.; musics: Future Colonies, The Decemberists, Mum, Explosions in the Sky, Julie Sokolow, Air, Beirut, Modest Mouse, Geist, Katie Geise and the Polygons, Jasmine Woodson, The Mars Volta, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Kanye West, Danger Mouse, Jay-Z, John Frusciante, etc. etc.; books: On the Road, Big Sur, American Psycho, V., The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Howl and other poems, Elegy on Toy Piano, oh, oh, it goes on forever, to hell with it.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitch-hiked across the U.S., actually. I have never been happier.

Teach, Learn, Share

Esoteric knowledge. Well how about "he who does not speak is wise"? Which would mean anything I say here will be essentially unwise.

A good horse runs even at the shadow of a whip.

Countries I’ve Visited

Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United Arab Emirates, United States

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