CURRENT MISSION

Staying put. For now.

ABOUT ME

Tall, smiley, with unruly hair that loves to travel even more than I do. I generally tote a guitar, a book, and hiking shoes wherever I go.

PHILOSOPHY

"So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
. . . .
Be like the fox
who makes more tracks than necessary,
some in the wrong direction.
Practice resurrection."

Wendell Berry

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing, for now. (Someday I'll have a house to myself and can return the favor.)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I finally got to use the site in 2012 when I circled the country; it was everything I'd hoped and more. Great people. Lovely world.

Interests

I appreciate: spicy curry, Jane Austen, hiking, dark chocolate, contra dancing, good conversation, starwatching, books, fresh air, British humor, playing and teaching music, new ideas, and hitting the road.

Guilty pleasures: being a connoisseur of Craigslist ads ("Missed Connections," anyone? No? You're missing out!). Also, really abysmal poetry -- the flat-out awful kind, I mean -- can make a girl's day.

Seriously, I like a lot of stuff. Living is the best sort of adventure.

• books
• poetry
• dancing
• chocolate
• vegetarian
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• violin
• hiking
• surfing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Josh Ritter, Bach, Rhye, Moby, Max Richter, Jubals Kin, The Avett Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Regina Spektor, Olafur Arnalds, Peter Gabriel, Macklemore, Beethoven, Frank Sinatra, Patty Griffin

Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Vertigo, Breakfast at Tiffany's, As It Is In Heaven, The Tree of Life, A Room with a View

Books: A Wrinkle in Time, The Giver, Crime and Punishment, Jayber Crow, Pride and Prejudice, Insert-Really-Good-Poetry-Compilation-Here

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

That lonely, majestic moment on the top of the Scottish highlands comes to mind.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach: violin, fiddle, guitar, piano skills; sentence-wrangling; making and doctoring up a wicked bowl of oatmeal. Given access to ingredients/grocery store, I make pretty decent vegetarian enchiladas.

Would love to learn: more fun tunes; counting to ten in interesting languages (made-up languages don't count, unless you're J.R.R. Tolkien); your kitchen specialty, your story.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom, United States