Work With Me

Expert cat wrangler with a black belt in clay wedging, I have a "thing" for taking naps on the NYC Subway and backyard chickens.  While I have not yet tried to explore both these joys at the same time, I'm not against giving it a go.  I've taught yoga, elementary school French, outdoor adventure, Chinese, ceramics, and childbirth education.  I've been a birth doula, a receptionist, an anthropologist, a sinologist, and eaten what must be the spiciest food you can actually live through consuming at a hotel breakfast buffet in Malaysia during Ramadan.  Five years ago, I put my cat Obi-wan into a 20-year old Honda Civic and drove to Vermont from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  I had never driven on the highway before.  Once, I climbed Hua Shan all night in the rain with two other students in my foreign exchange program (High five William and Mike because we didn't die of hypothermia!).  All these things have been possible for me because of two features of my personality:

 

1.  I am absolutely fascinated by absolutely everything.  Sharing what I have come to know is important to my processing of information.  I am a teacher because I am a student.
2. I see the best in people.  My super power is that I can find what a person is capable of and then provide accomodations not for their different abilities, but for their strengths.  I am flexible in language, work, and relationship.  My heart is in everything I make and everything I do.