(You have one of these too, right?)
~ Get a sexy tattoo on my foot
~ Ride a horse in an untamed bit of the world
~ Swim in the Devil’s Swimming Pool (Victoria Falls)
~ Write a novel
~ Snowboard in the Andes
~ Create a cookbook, if only for my own use
~ Take a salsa dancing class
~ Mountain bike around Hawaii
~ Learn Photoshop
~ See Damien Rice perform live
~ Eat sushi in Japan
~ Participate in a writers’ retreat
~ Be part of a true tribe of friends again
~ Channel my inner hobbit in New Zealand
~ Grow a strawberry patch (5/24/10)
~ Eat salted caramel ice cream at Berthillon in Paris
~ Master yoga
~ Go skinny dipping (7/5/09)
~ Relax in an Icelandic hot spring
~ Make pastries and desserts for a little bakery
~ Speak Italian fluently
~ Scuba-dive in the Great Barrier Reef
~ Attend a wedding with champagne and dancing
~ Compile monthly love letters to the girls to give them when they leave home
~ Venture into the Salzburg salt mines
~ Serve a volleyball perfectly
~ Hike in Alaska
~ Make a book wish-list and read everything on it
~ Learn to like eggplant
~ Walk in high heels like a movie star
~ Drink Guinness in Ireland (8/15/09)
~ Understand the Bible
~ Camp in a national park (8/22/09 – Snowdonia in Wales, 6/29/10 – Trossachs in Scotland)
~ Learn Spanish, French, Portuguese, and passable German
~ Make millefoglie from scratch (7/16/10 – strawberry edition, 7/19/10 – cherry edition, and yes, my own birthday cake)
~ Sleep under the stars somewhere breathtaking
~ Try a new food in Africa
~ Get geography under my belt once and for all
~ Take an art class
~ See Ben Folds perform live
~ Stand inside the Colosseum
~ Compose a song
~ Float in the Red Sea
~ Find the perfect pair of jeans (1/2/10)
~ Witness the miracle of birth
~ Participate in a flash mob
~ See the Northern Lights with my own two eyes
(“The way to write well is to live intensely.” ~Virginia Woolf )
