CURRENT MISSION

Use my authority as an MD to advise good health practices and represent a compassionate partner in self-care to populations who have few role models for this behavior.

ABOUT ME (-- I wrote all this stuff below >10 years ago, but I think it still applies, no new updates :D)

I grew up in Portland, OR, surrounded by bike paths, and now everyone acts like they're the hot new thing. Such is life! I love returning home to encounter how lovely the people are back in the PNW, and by 'lovely' i mean unfettered by the anxiety that seems to be broadcast from the street corners in many other parts of the country... but really, i have simply placed Portland on a solid pedestal and love traveling if for no other reason but to be reminded that every city could be on a pedestal to a native whose nostalgia keeps bringing them home.

PHILOSOPHY

I always paraphrase some advertisement from when I was in middle school, it went something like: Strangers are friends once you've introduced yourself. Also, be tactful, honest and confrontationally graceful

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My husband Dan and our roommate Julia and I love people and travel. We would be happy to host a couch-surfer every now and then.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted a few times in college (early 2000s), when my roommates were CS-keen. I just remembered that this community exists and thought I'd re-enlist.

Interests

Art, gardening, biking, running (relays!), ultimate frisbee, listening to travel stories, reading, baking bread pudding, floating down rivers, oh and studying until my eyes fall out of my head (enucleation)

• arts
• baking
• running
• gardening
• reading
• traveling
• cycling
• surfing
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: I heart hucbkabees, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back to the Future. Books: House of the Spirits, Count of Monte Cristo, Farewell my concubine, The God of Small Things.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Talk to people every day about addiction and anxiety.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Wit and grand ideas.

Countries I’ve Visited

Angola, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Israel, Mexico, Namibia, Nicaragua, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa, United States

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