The usual:
• great friends
• close to my family
• love my work (passionate about relationships between people and helping (re)build connection within family and community)
• write fiction and non-fiction
• love the arts (performing, visual and music)
• amazing cook (or so I’m told, though friends will tell you anything to get invited to the next dinner)
• enjoy wine tasting and touring
• as happy to go for a hike as to a piece of theatre or dance or on a spontaneous road trip
• secret superpowers...

Work-wise, I mediate parent-teen, couple, family and workplace conflict (wherever emotional volatility and relationship/team building converge) both for a non-profit agency and privately, manage a team of mediators and a youth drop-in centre, and train social workers, family workers, probation officers... That would be the serious side. As my alter-ego, I teach digital and game designers and animators, am finishing my first novel and second non-fiction, collect art, and sit on the board of a number of experimental theatre and dance companies. I am passionate about the arts and regularly go to shows ranging from performance art and experimental theatre to contemporary dance and music (underground to string quartets to modern classical and jazz to opera) to alternative galleries. I also enjoy hiking (not extreme) and camping (in the summer) and walking anytime.

This winter, I seem to be spending my spare time playing in the kitchen with food and drinks (I’m about to open a milk bottle of vodka that I’ve had drowning roasted figs for almost a year) throwing dinners for and hanging out with friends. Last Summer found me biking, playing in my micro-garden, and mixing martinis.

long hair, playful mind...

Music: Armstrong Bach Bartok Beatles Beethoven Beck Belle&Sebastien Bergman Bjork Bowie BranVan3000 JaquesBrel Buzzcocks Cale Clash Coltrane Copyright Costello Cure Davis Defunkt Ellington Fitzgerald Gabriel GotanProject Holiday Jam Lhasa AliAkbarKhan Kreuder&Dorfmeister Magazine Massive Attack MazzyStar MCSolaar Mingus Moby Morcheeba Mozart MMO’hara EdithPiaf Piazzola Portishead LouReed Schubert Shostakovich Siouxie PattiSmith Stravinsky OhSuzanna Shrieckback TalkingHeads ThieveryCorp VedaHille VelvetUnderground Verdi VerveRemixed XTC canyoutellijustfinishedorganizingmyitunes?

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…enjoying myself with friends. On a typical Thursday night I am hosting a weekly potluck for anywhere from eight to eighteen friends and friends of friends…

I have an identical twin and so does he.