1. Climb an Egyptian pyramid
2. Visit Asia – Great Wall, Forbidden City, Hiroshima, Shanghai, Cambodia
3. Teach something
4. Visit South America – Machu Picchu, Mayan ruins, Andes
5. Hold an exotic animal
6. See the Northern Lights
7. Pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island
8. Finish my Master’s degree
9. Become a better photographer
10. Be friends with my nieces
11. Help someone financially
12. Live somewhere with a front porch
13. Live somewhere with a window seat or reading nook
14. Hike through the Akamas gorge in Cyprus with Robbie
15. See the Giant’s Causeway
16. Understand nutrition better
17. Build bookshelves with my dad
18. Declutter and simplify my belongings
19. Journal consistently
20. Try kayaking
21. Learn another instrument
22. Pursue work that interests and fulfills me
23. Remodel a room from top to bottom
24. Write and publish a book
25. Learn to garden
26. Catch up on all of the books I should have already read as a bookseller
27. Learn a formal dance
28. Speak at a public event/forum about an issue that matters to me
29. Have a usual drink to order when I’m out
30. Return to a place we love (with Robbie)
31. See the Treasury at Petra in Jordan
32. Do something adventurous in New Zealand
33. Run in a 5K
34. Zipline in the Redwoods
35. Help someone solve a mystery in his or her family history or past
36. Go dogsledding
37. Find a winter sport I enjoy
38. Take a CPR course
39. Sydney bridge climb
40. Ride a bike in Nova Scotia
41. Make my own jewelery
42. Take a tour of historically significant places in Boston
43. Get ink
44. Learn to make an espresso drink like a pro
45. Develop a broader knowledge of music
46. Watch the classic movies
47. See a Second City show in Chicago
48. Walk across a rope bridge
49. Horseback riding in the Grand Canyon
50. Get a dog with Robbie
51. Sew a patchwork quilt
52. Dive elegantly into water from a high place
53. Create a mobile of origami birds
54. Be part of the book industry again
55. Have the right shoes for the right outfit
56. Attend BlogHer and/or a Mighty Summit (Camp Mighty counts, I think)
57. NYC with the family
58. Alpine slide with Robbie, Brian, and Kim
59. Be more expressive, more jubilant
60. Visit Paris
61. Visit the homes of great artists: Monet (Giverny), Chagall (Vitebsk), Rodin (Meudon), O’Keefe (Abiquiu), Van Gogh (Brabant/Zundert), Da Vinci, Renoir, Beale (Allbrook Farm)…
62. Experience weightlessness
63. Learn yoga
64. Have portraits taken of myself and me with Robbie
65. Explore Appalachia
66. Find a really good bubble tea
67. Attend a World Cup game
68. Participate in a service trip to an African nation: Raised money for charity: water
69. Give someone an extravagant gift
70. Have henna done again
71. Speak my love
72. Vacation in New England
73. Photograph waterfalls in Yosemite
74. Photograph the Yucca brevifolia of Joshua Tree National Park
75. Complete (with a few exceptions) the 100 Things to Do in Milwaukee list (and more)
76. Learn how to back up a trailer
77. Write a memoir/life story
78. Take a letterpress class
79. Take a pottery class
80. Volunteer my time on a regular basis
81. Relax and have fun in Costa Rica
82. Visit the Völkerschlachtdenkmal
83. Frolic in the waves at Big Sur
84. Hear Maya Angelou speak live
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