a former high school teacher in Miami, Florida and Quito, Ecuador
born in Pittsburgh, PA and talk about it constantly
favorite music to listen to is '70s and '80s soul, but I listen to a wide variety
a drummer since 2002 - favorite music to play is jazz
a lifelong nerd and former owner of a pet blue lobster
can name and place every country in the world
favorite words: catawampus, sesquipedalian, mensiversary, each of them for a reason
njb
graduate of Indiana University and Johns Hopkins
amateur bird-watcher, hiker and climber

Interests

• traveling
• music
• live music
• drums
• mountaineering
• sports
• baseball
• basketball
• hockey
• history
• football
• ultimate frisbee
• hip hop
• percussion
• r&b

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Summit the highest mountains in Africa, Central America, Thailand, the Smokies, and Pennsylvania.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach percussion, particularly jazz and rock on the drum set. I can teach you to belay, climb, or zipline. I'm a former full time English and History teacher and tutor for the US citizenship test, so I can definitely teach that too!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Laos, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, United States