Work: Shipwright and custom woodworker. Computer graphics and cartography. Former Firefighter and EMT. Aspiring author.

At home: cooking, letterboxing, books and reading, BookCrossing, letter writing, pen pals, art, mail art, journaling …

Outdoors: wilderness travel, gold prospecting, canoeing, sailing, fishing …

In the City: Concerts, clubbing, art museums, local and international travel, public transit, meeting new friends, staying in hostels …

Music I enjoy: Peter Gabriel, Indigo Girls, Talking Heads, Natalie Merchant, Hootie & The Blowfish, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sleater-Kinney, Greg Brown, Silbermond, KT Tunstall, Alanis Morissette, Goo Goo Dolls, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gogol Bordello, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, The White Stripes, Pearl Jam, Kimya Dawson, The Magnetic Fields, The Cranberries, Joy Division, Shakira, The Ting Tings, Live, Bebe, Eddie Vedder, Soul Asylum, Buck 65, Metric, The New Pornographers, Björk, The Tragically Hip, Lou Reed, The Airborne Toxic Event, Jacques Brel, The Smiths, Coldplay, Cœur de pirate, Cowboy Junkies, The Decemberists, and many more!

Movies: The Time Traveler's Wife, L'Auberge Espagnole, Micmacs, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Paris, Je T'aime, The Runaways, Transsiberian, (500) Days of Summer, Secretary, Whatever Works, Lost in Austen, Cashback, Let the Right One In, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Almost Famous, Like Water for Chocolate, The Red Violin, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Million Dollar Hotel, Wings of Desire, Amelie, Talk to Her, The Sea Inside, Crashing, among many.

Authors: JessLourey, Richelle Mead, Terry Pratchett, Kenneth Oppel, Evelyn Waugh, Jasper Fforde, Dan Brown, Nick Bantock, Tracy Chevalier …