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Mighty Life List

  1. Skydive.
  2. Hang glide.
  3. Learn to western swing dance.
  4. Learn to play the guitar.
  5. Play a song on an instrument in public.
  6. Play a music set in public.
  7. Shoot 50 street portraits.
  8. Start a band.
  9. Learn to play the banjo(y).
  10. Learn to play the piano.
  11. Run a half-marathon.
  12. Knit a hat and matching scarf.
  13. Learn to play 5 songs on guitar.
  14. Write songs.
  15. Learn the Thriller dance.
  16. Read a fiction novel a month for 12 months.
  17. Travel out of the country once a year for 5 years.
  18. Self-portrait at the base of the Eiffel Tower.
  19. Get leid in Hawaii.
  20. Learn to use my camera for real.
  21. Swim with manatees.
  22. Snow ski.
  23. Water ski.
  24. Make kombucha.
  25. Eat a VooDoo Donut in Portland.
  26. Develop a home yoga practice.
  27. Do a headstand.
  28. Make s’mores entirely from scratch with my kids.
  29. Have my own photography show.
  30. Write a book.
  31. Make a pavlova from scratch.
  32. Attend Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.
  33. Hire a photographer and have family photos taken.
  34. Plant an edible front yard.
  35. Roll around on a big pile of cash.
  36. Visit NYC.
  37. Take my family to Disneyworld.
  38. Eat Bahn Mi in Vietnam.
  39. Have a booth selling creations at Deluxe Indie Craft Bazaar.
  40. Stage a photo that is reminiscent of  a Whitesnake video. With Jaguars. 
  41. Split a bottle of wine with Bill Murray.
  42. Orchestrate a scavenger hunt in Oklahoma City.
  43. Have the piece of amber I bought in old town Warsaw, PL turned into a striking pendant necklace.
  44. Attend a taping of Austin City Limits.
  45. Read The Hobbit out loud to the kids.
  46. Learn to play chess.
  47. Visit Ireland.
  48. Attend the Telluride Bluegrass Festival again.
  49. Write a piece for Sunset Magazine.
  50. Write a piece for This Land Press.
  51. Set foot in all 50 states.
  52. Walk a length of the Great Wall of China.
  53. Make a paper journal from scratch.
  54. Bike to work.
  55. Go on a nature walk with my grandchildren.
  56. See the Northern Lights.
  57. Eat pizza in Naples.
  58. Skinny dip in the ocean (away from sharks and jellyfish).
  59. Tour the White House.
  60. Stand on a glacier.
  61. Swing on a trapeze.
  62. Make 50% or greater of my Christmas gifts for (at least) one year.
  63. Drink a mojito in Cuba.
  64. Build a a backyard oasis.
  65. Take twenty online classes to enhance my life: Personal Branding at Braid Creative; Daring Greatly Read-a-long; Power of Vulnerability; Life Coaching for Creatives; Oprah Life Class: Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection; 
  66. Make 1,000 lovely things.
  67. Learn to do a cartwheel. 
  68. Learn 5 songs to OWN at karaoke.
  69. Attend Burning Man.

 

Accomplished items:

  1. Go to BlogHer Food 2013 in Austin.
  2. Live in a small house on a tree-lined street in an old neighborhood.
  3. Attend Camp Mighty.
  4. Attend SXSW.
  5. Transform my bedroom from a gigantic dirty clothes hamper into a beautifully appointed, Pinterest-worthy retreat despite the super-wonky layout.
  6. Redesign my blog.
  7. Sing in public.
  8. Attend one concert a month for 12 months.
  9. See a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater.
  10. Adopt a dachshund. I think Bailey counted as a large doxie.
  11. Be in an art show.
  12. Attend the Newport Folk Festival.
  13. Establish a Sunday Night Social at my house. House concerts are close enough
  14. Get a tattoo.
  15. Make a gingerbread house with my kids.
  16. Have a pint with Glen Hansard. I would like to highlight that THIS HAPPENED and was completely surreal/awesome. 
  17. Take the kids into one of those caves behind a waterfall.
  18. Buy a hammock and rock the day away.
  19. Attend Mom 2.0 Summit.
  20. Pierce my eyebrow. I ended up piercing my nose and kept it for a couple of years.
  21. Help someone else accomplish a life list goal.
  22. Learn to ride a skateboard.
  23. Watch the sun set/rise at the White Sands National Monument.
  24. Eat beignets and sip hot chicory at Cafe Du Monde.
  25. Learn how to drive a standard (not automatic) car.
  26. Highway 1/101 road trip.
  27. Meditate.
  28. Build a better shoe wardrobe, including the holy grail: tall boots that fit me.
  29. Bike across the Golden Gate Bridge.
  30. Find my life’s work.
  31. Present a talk at IgniteOKC. I did one at PechaKucha and another at Creative Mornings. 
  32. Make 100 confections. I have made and sold over 1,000 lbs of toffee. It counts.
  33. Put my feet in an ocean once a year for 5 years. Ocean Beach, 9/12; San Diego 10/13; Rhode Island 7/14; Ocean Beach 1/15; I forget where this happened in 2016, but it did.
  34. Discover 3 favorite cocktails that I can order at any bar or event. It turns out, I don’t really enjoy cocktails that are at any/every bar. But if I am at a even slightly nerdier bar I can order a French 75, Bees Knees or just get a fucking glass of delicious red wine, which is what I want anyway. 
  35. Take the kids to Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. I took the kids (and our German exchange student) on a 10ish day road trip through New Mexico in 2017.