CURRENT MISSION

be present

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i spread the word with enthusiasm host the occasional traveler, and regularly surf in my travels.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

had great couchsurfing experiences in Charlottesville and Sheffield and Reno and elsewhere, met wonderful travelers in Providence and New York, and looking forward to much more!

i apparently have a limited vocabulary, because my references for folks tend to involve "lovely" "wonderful" "awesome" etc. - but i think that may just be the way the couchsurfing community is!

Interests

activism, art, beauty, books, bookstores, change, chicago, coffee, communication, comprehensive sexuality education, connection, correspondence, dancing, ephemera, fandom, fantasy, feminism, gender, identity, joy, justice, language, mountains, nature, passion, people, performance, photography, pleasure, poetry, popular media, public humanities, queer theory, representation, right relation, sexuality, stories, tea, television, touch, travel, trees, wanderlust, writing

• arts
• humanities
• writing
• books
• poetry
• performing arts
• photography
• beauty
• dancing
• education
• womens rights
• coffee
• traveling
• communications
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

music:ani difranco, dar williams, death cab for cutie, dispatch, indigo girls, k's choice, kings of convienence, lovers, mary black, mirah, norah jones, sarah mclachlan, suzanne vega, tracy chapman, vienna teng

movies: all the real girls, amelie, bandits (german), before sunrise, before sunset, closer, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, garden state, the hours, the incredibly true adventures of two girls in love, kissing jessica stein, monsoon wedding, the princess bride, run lola run, secretary, things you can tell just by looking at her, TiMER

books: In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, Griffin and Sabine, The God of Small Things, Proof, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, The Little Prince, Song of Solomon, The Handmaid's Tale, Dreamwork, Eva Luna, quirkyalone, Ishmael, The Poisonwood Bible, Paula, The Baron in the Trees, Orlando, Traveling Mercies, Burger's Daughter, Quilting the Black Eyed Pea, The Secret Life of Bees, His Dark Materials, Love Medicine, A Ring of Endless Light, Walk Two Moons, Bee Season, The Westing Game, Parable of the Sower, The Time Traveler's Wife, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Kitchen, and more others than i can name...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

amazing thing: connecting with people.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Ghana, Japan, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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