Zen Sundays

I'm making a life list. Mostly because life doesn't end after the PhD. Here we go...

1. buy a house - done, July 2008
2. pay off my debt
3. ride in a hot air balloon
4. write a book
5. swim with dolphins
6. update my passport
7. visit all 50 states
8. see the aurora borealis
9. donate blood
10. run a half-marathon
11. go whale-watching
12. lose weight. a lot of it.
13. find my Atticus Finch (AKA fall in love with a modern-day Atticus)
14. visit a rainforest
15. drive across the USA
16. scuba dive
17. have $100,000 in savings/investments
18. build a house with Habitat for Humanity
19. visit Machu Piccu
20. go on a spiritual/meditation/yoga retreat
21. ride a motorcycle
22. white water raft in Alaska and Colorado - in progress (Alaska, 1991)
23. be an extra in a movie
24. host a photography exhibit from my travels
25. live in a commune
26. learn to play 5 instruments (guitar, piano, other?)
27. write a song
28. visit a cemetery in Savannah
29. sleep in a castle in Scotland
30. create a nonprofit
31. listen to Jazz in a Mississippi juke joint
32. see a temple in Tibet
33. ride a streetcar in San Francisco - done, 2008
34. see Shakespeare in the Globe
35. see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre
36. be an extra in a movie
37. volunteer overseas
38. learn to knit
39. wear a sexy red dress to a black-tie event
40. make snow angels
41. lie under the stars with someone I love
42. kiss in the pouring rain
43. teach a child to read
44. learn cross-country skiing
46. learn how to change the oil in my car
47. make my own bread for a month
48. go for a sleigh ride
49. make my own preserves
50. learn all about investing money
51. live overseas for a year
52. write/publish 20 articles
53. be a vegetarian for one month
54. go on a roadtrip with my best friend
55. ride a horse on a beach
56. adopt a child/children
57. surf in Hawaii
58. go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras
59. go to Rio for Carnivale
60. hike the Appalachian Trail
61. be in the Polar Bear Club - done, 2005
62. earn my PhD - done, 2011
63. give a TED talk
64. play chess in Central Park
65. write a book about something that means a lot to me
66. go to Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada
67. become a cheese connoisseur
68. make a quilt
69. volunteer at a homeless shelter
70. write NaNoWriMo
71. write a textbook
72. audition for a rock band
73. become a college professor - done, 2011
74. create a significant passive income
75. watch turtles hatch and run for the ocean
76. milk a cow
77. adopt a pet from an animal shelter - done, 2011
78. live in a house by a lake - done, 2011
79. go to an Ole Miss football game
80. go skinny dipping in a large body of water at midnight
81. take a shower under a waterfall
82. hike the Grand Canyon
83. design a child's library
84. sing my favorite song in front of an audience
85. plant a tree
86. go on a blind date
87. go backpacking in Europe
88. watch cherry blossoms and eat sushi in Japan
89. fly in a helicopter
90. plant a tree
91. fast one day/month for a year & donate the money saved to charity
92. learn the major constellations
93. cook with herbs from my own garden
94. attend a movie premiere
95. be a Big Sis w/ Big Brothers, Big Sisters
96. go camping - and enjoy it
97. be a foster mama - done, 2010-2011
98. swim in three oceans
99. train my dog to be a volunteer for retirement homes/hospitals (and then do that)
100. teach a child to sing

More to come...