I am not here to meet anyone romantically, only as friends. I am especially looking for postal pen pals. Also, if you’re and anti-masker, and anti-vaxxer, or if you think COVID-19 is a hoax, you can miss me with that shit. Go message someone else.

I am 45, and I live in Albany, NY. I work in eLearning/Instructional Development, and I am into music, art, travel, theater, and a million other things. I'm a bit like Anne of Green Gables, if she said "fuck" a lot.

I'm here to make friends, have some deep and interesting conversations about the world and the human experience, and the sorts of things that live in the gaps between people that almost no one is ever honest about.

I would like to talk to all kinds of people around the world. I am especially looking to speak meet French and Dutch speakers for language practice.

Please note, if you message me with a comment about my appearance, anything sexual in nature, or how we're soulmates when we've never met or spoken, I will not respond to you.

You should message me if:
(Note: these are examples, not requirements)

You enjoy hearing Donald Trump read for filth in delightfully colorful ways
You want to have conversations that get under the skin, and find radical honesty appealing (note: radical honesty as in vulnerability, not as in cruel "honesty")
Your only response to hearing "Black Lives Matter" is: "Absolutely."
You are passionately curious and inquisitive
You want to share or exchange awesome music
You want to collaborate on *making* music
You think I sound a bit crazy and you're into that kind of thing
You're over the age of 30 and still have a favorite dinosaur

I would love to meet French and Dutch speakers for language practice.

learning, knitting, music, photography, theater, music, travel, reading, writing, singing, programming/web dev, educational technology, teaching

Oh jeez, all kinds of things: Rasputina, Tori Amos, Apocalyptica, The Mynabirds, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Billy Joel, Mumford and Sons, Nine Inch Nails, Assemblage 23, Siouxsie and the Banshees, VAST, Stabbing Westward, classical. Anything with a melancholy spirit that reaches inside and stirs the heart.

These videos are my band:



Me, solo cover:


And some other stuff I love:

Much Ado About Nothing, Love Actually, Pan's Labyrinth, The Goonies, Stardust, Dirty Dancing, Star Wars, Practical magic, Apocalypse Now, Princess Bride, Whale Rider, Attack the Block, Amelie, Wizard of Oz, Pride & Prejudice, Super 8, Harry Potter series, Captain Marvel, etc

Bones, Monk, Psych, Firefly, Crossing Jordan, Doctor Who, Picard, The Mandalorian... I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest.

Anything by Dorothy Sayers, Much Ado About Nothing, the Harry Potter series, the Hunger Games series, Pride and Prejudice, both His Dark Materials trilogies, the Children of Blood and Bone series, Sapiens, The Girl with All the Gifts, and I read a lot of manga