Bucket List
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, just didn’t think that I’d make it public. Then I saw Maggie’s and knew what I had to do. So in an effort to live a life that’s an open book, here they are in no particular order:
- Visit the Pyramids
- Meet the Irish cousins who don’t know I exist yet; in Dublin
- Write that book
- Get that book published
- Go on a book tour
- Send Travis off to college
- Send Haley off to college
- Go on a cruise
- Lose the weight once and for all
- Get involved with local theater
- Get involved in local politics
- Learn to meditate effectively or consistently or both
- Consider myself athletic
- Make my own bread
- Get a hot stone massage
- Be invited to and attend a party thrown by Michael Chiarello
- Be invited to and attend a party thrown by Ina Garten
- Learn to knit
- Learn to sew
- Stay in a stilt house in Bora Bora
- Visit Bali
- Visit Hawaii
- Visit Tuscany
- Live in Europe
- Have dinner with the Travoltas
- Have dinner with Oprah
- Have dinner with Marianne Williamson
- Visit all 50 states
- Make a perfect chocolate souffle
- Spend a summer in a beach house surrounded by friends and family
- Go on a Photo Safari in Africa
- Perfect my sorbet technique
- Plant a huge vegetable/herb/flower garden
- Give a million dollars to a charity
- Eat pad thai, in Thailand
- Get rid of this plantar fasciitis crud
- Take Haley to concert
- Take Travis to a concert
- Volunteer at least once a month
- Learn to use a torch
- Find a spiritual community locally, that’s a good fit for me
- Get involved in a food co-op
- Cook a meal in a restaurant kitchen
- Learn to speak another language
- Finish “Don Quixote”
- Throw a huge party (over 100 people)
- Swim with dolphin
- See every Oscar nominated film, before the Oscar show of the same year
- Throw a giant Oscar party, black tie.
- Go on a writer’s retreat in Taos
- Stay at Boca Chica Lodge and have ALL the treatments
- Sing in a band again
- Make candy
