CURRENT MISSION

To embrace the Good Crazy behind the wheel of a pick-up truck; seeking Water At The Well and writing it down when the bucket is full. I need other humans and their stories for all of this.

ABOUT ME

A traveling scribe with a taste for gin and Henry Miller. Slightly mad. Mildly obsessed with her turquoise1994 Ford Ranger XLT, Daniel.
A lover of people and the words that come out of their mouths. Known giver of hugs, strange advice and unfiltered observations concerning the world. A collector of things who gave all her things away.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live.
It is easy to be miserable - but to be miserable is misery. Live who you are, as you are, while you can.
Embrace the hardship. Embrace vice.

Language should make us all into wild dogs, and I seek to find words everywhere through everyone. Be obscene but not crass for we are animals and nature is a whore. It's beautiful. It's healthy.

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." - Henry Miller

You meet people precisely where you meet them and nowhere else.

Interests

Writing, reading, thumb-twiddling, talking to strangers, walks along wharfs and other ugly places, making a truck-hood hammock, gin and soda with a twist of lime, obsessive pacing, laughing at my own jokes in my own head, vegetables, sheep (as well as elk, moose and deer), tattoos, Ford trucks, Marlboro Smooths, adjectives, catastrophic life decisions, love

• animals
• dogs
• writing
• tattoos
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• painting

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
"Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie, "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner, "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, "The Feather Room" by Anis Mojgani, "The Broom of the System" by David Foster Wallace, "Georgia Underwater" by Heather Sellers, "Blankets" by Craig Thompson, "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel, "The Body Artist" by Don DeLillo, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson, "Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy, "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri, "Old School" by Tobias Wolff, "Super Flat Times" by Matthew Derby, "Little Birds" by Anais Nin, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers, "Hell's Angels" by Hunter S. Thompson, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "The Moor's Last Sigh" by Salman Rushdie, "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski, "Maus" by Art Spiegelman, "Henry and June" by Anias Nin, "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie, "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, "Winkie" by Clifford Chase, "Watership Down" by Richard Adams, "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Music:
CocoRosie, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra, Gogol Bordello, Fleet Foxes, Etta James, Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, Wax Tailor, The XX, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Iron and Wine, City and Colour, Cat Power, RATATAT, Sigur Ros, Francoise Hardy, Ella Fitzgerald, OutKast, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Passion Pit, Bjork, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Robert Johnson, The Rolling Stones, Lady Gaga, Joni Mitchell, 16 Horsepower, Tyler The Creator, Dido, Dead Man's Bones, Broken Bells, NSYNC, Yoav, Matisyahu, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Caribou, Seal, The Dresden Dolls, Peggy Lee, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, John Legend, Band of Horses, Gorillaz, Coldplay, Sarah Jaffe, Mumford and Sons, Muse, Kings of Leon, Bush, Rasputina, Antony and the Johnsons, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Imogen Heap

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Here are three:
- Had a spectacular love affair that ended in perfect tragedy. Drained it dry with writing.

- Cleared out a 1300 sq ft apartment. Gave away possessions. Bought a truck.

- Once laid on said truck's truck-hood with a French-Canadian stranger down by the Ohio River until 5 am. Accidentally locked the keys in the cab. Called Pop-a-Lock and fell asleep on the hood together waiting.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am well-read, a word-whore and more than willing to move furniture, paint walls, change bandages, sheer sheep, cuddle and make biscuits.
And we will talk and you can put your words all over my ears and I promise to look you in the eye and only mention the weather if I think the clouds look particularly striking.