A little information about me...

·        Peripatetic since the age of 2 (eldest child of a jet-setting advertising executive mother and a roving cultural anthropologist father), I was raised abroad, lived on 4 continents growing up, and have traveled in over 40 different countries, most of which were in South & East Asia and Europe. I have lived in 4 U.S. states in the past 20 years… so, yes, I understand little bit about what it means to move around.

·        I picked up and moved to The Triangle in 2006 after unintentionally visiting it for the first time on what was supposed to be a weekend road trip to check out Charleston.  After exploring for a week, I relocated here without knowing a soul. It's now been 19 years and I know I made the right choice. The Triangle is a wonderful place to live, work, play, and invest.

·        I try to leave the country at least once a year to visit new places and expose myself to other cultures, people, architecture, and ideas.  I find this makes me more well-rounded as well as more grounded and curious. I thoroughly enjoy seeing property and building practices in other countries and cultures and enjoying new food and music.

·        I am a fanatic gourmand, lover of the public library, construction physics bookworm, property investor, enthusiastic though untrained cook, beginning gardener, NPR-Sustainer, documentary film junkie, avid museum go-er, committed dumpster-diver, perpetual student, energy efficiency nerd, and eternal traveler.

·        Likes: inquisitiveness, planning, backgammon, research, my passport,challenges, dry humor, large rocks & boulders, data & statistics, tall fences, shared responsibility, value engineering, big inexpensive sunglasses, the dialectic, metal wind sculptures, amortizing most things,  modern structures / furniture, international travel, smaller house designs, birds at my feeders, efficiency in most areas (except words), sustainable building & retrofitting, cooking daily, universal design principles, screened porches, long term planning, finding deals, dinner parties, economical evergreen plants, hellebores, moss, chunky soups, chickpeas, almost all cheeses, mangos, and fresh kale

·        Dislikes: apathy, keeping up with The Jones-es, lots of grassy lawn, lack of curiosity, bland food, mediocre professionals, preventable wastage, people who don't put their cart back, TV's in restaurants, choppy floorplans, unwillingness to learn, the deer and groundhogs who eat my garden, refusal/denial of change, the headerss over standard closets, driving across long bridges, thoughtless home designs, poor table manners, pressure selling tactics, unconscious consumption, prickly / thorny plants, intentional McMansions, ear-buds, lima beans (except at Grub), tapioca pudding, and the smell of baby powder