Things to do in my lifetime:

• Jump out of an airplane by 35 yrs old DONE! August 2004
• Swim in a pool of ping pong balls
• Soak a hot mud bath at a spa for my 40th birthday
• Publish a short story
• Publish a novel or book of short stories
• Go skinny dipping with a friend/friends at night
• Dance naked under a full moon when old and wrinkled
• Learn to belly dance
• Go to a live concert DONE! Sarah McLachlan, August 2004
• Go hang gliding
• rappel down a cliff (preferably at ocean’s edge)
• Stand in the middle of a forest of Redwoods/Sequoias
• Finish my BA in Literature before my kid’s graduate highschool (should have this done by December 2007)
• Finish my MA in Literature around or just after my kid’s graduate highschool
• Finish my PHd in Literature before I’m too old to use it.
• Learn Tai Chi to a proficiency that I can go outside and do it on my own (not looking to become a master or anything)

This is a work in progress (I have to try and remember all the things I have said “add that to my list” to), and while it might appear that these things are just randomly pulled from the air, there is usually a reason behind them or something that triggered the thought that…”Oh, I should add that to my list.” The jumping out of an airplane was something I said a looooooong time ago when 35 seemed like an ancient age, then when I realized I was nearly 36, my friend and I took care of that one! The ping pong balls came about this summer from a crazy game of ping pong with my neighbor. The skinny dipping idea came from reading The Mermaid Chair, and etc. I have NO idea where the dancing under the full moon came from, I think from a conversation with a friend a long time ago about being body conscious that led to, “Ah well, someday I won’t care and will dance naked under the full moon”…sort of a “wear purple and a red hat” kindof moment that has stuck.