My Life List

Also called a Bucket List, but I prefer Life List. Less morbid. And as I said here, I don’t think my life is incomplete if I don’t do all these things… I’m already exorbitantly blessed beyond all measure.

I’ll cross things off as I accomplish them. Written in random order.

  1. Get a book published
  2. Get another book publshed
  3. Write a young adult fiction novel
  4. Meet J.K. Rowling
  5. Set foot on all 7 continents
  6. Set foot on all 196(ish) countries
  7. Live in a different country for awhile
  8. Get married
  9. Have children
  10. Live near the mountains
  11. Live near the beach
  12. Take a cooking class
  13. Visit Paris
  14. Spend at least a month in Paris
  15. Learn French
  16. Live in France
  17. Visit Hawaii
  18. Visit Tuscany and Sicily
  19. Visit the British Isles
  20. Visit New Zealand
  21. Visit Australia
  22. Visit Iceland
  23. Visit Alaska
  24. Build a house from scratch
  25. See the Great Wall of China
  26. See the Pyramids
  27. Become a good gardener
  28. Visit Thailand
  29. Ride on an elephant
  30. Get a tattoo
  31. See a play on Broadway
  32. Spend at least a month in New York City
  33. Attend the Sundance Film Festival
  34. Learn how to sail
  35. Sail around the world with Kyle
  36. Climb a mountain with Kyle
  37. Backpack through Europe with Tate
  38. Take each of my kids on a one-on-one trip
  39. See each of my children grow up confident in who God made them to be
  40. Visit Ireland
  41. Spend at least a month in Ireland
  42. Take a cross-country family road trip and visit all 50 U.S. states
  43. Go to Yellowstone
  44. See Mt. Everest (notice I said see, not climb)
  45. Spend time on a Greek island
  46. Save up enough for a quality retirement
  47. Teach my kids financial responsibility
  48. Take each of my kids to visit their Compassion sponsored child
  49. Go SCUBA diving
  50. See the Great Barrier Reef
  51. Eat the most delicious piece of chocolate in the world
  52. Drink the most delicious wine in the world
  53. Spend at least a month in London
  54. Learn to play the guitar
  55. Become a good photographer
  56. Take a photo every day for a year
  57. Swim with dolphins
  58. Ride in a hot-air balloon
  59. See the Northern lights
  60. Go on a big vacation with my entire extended family
  61. Be part of a Flash Mob
  62. Go on a really long bike ride
  63. Become a runner
  64. Fly on a Concorde jet
  65. Attend a TED Conference
  66. Speak at a TED Conference
  67. Learn how to knit
  68. Run a guest house
  69. Go on an African safari
  70. Significantly help a charity I’m passionate about
  71. Have a wraparound porch
  72. Be a grandparent that my grandkids want to be around
  73. Get 8 hours of sleep every night for one month.
  74. Grow SLM so that it provides a significant income for all the editors
  75. Stand on Red Square
  76. Visit Israel
  77. Open a Swiss bank account (just to say I have a Swiss bank account)
  78. Whisk Kyle away on a completely surprising trip
  79. Visit The Eagle and the The Child (the pub where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkein would meet and share writing drafts)
  80. See Loy Krathong, the sky lantern festival in Thailand
  81. Learn how to make good tortillas
  82. See Andrew Bird in concert
  83. Learn how to whistle
  84. See Arcade Fire in concert
  85. See U2 in concert
  86. See U2 in concert… again
  87. Have a big anniversary party with Kyle
  88. Teach all my kids to read
  89. Remodel a house
  90. Take the kids to the spot on the dirt road in Kosovo where Kyle and I met
  91. Become debt-free
  92. Complete all seven of Dave Ramsey’s baby steps
  93. Leave a $100 tip for a waitress
  94. Go ice skating in Rockefeller Center at Christmastime
  95. Ski the Alps
  96. Drive on the Autobahn
  97. Go to the Smithsonian
  98. Visit Colonial Williamsburg
  99. Swim in the Mediterranean
  100. See God glorified because of my short time here on Earth