One of my favorite bloggers has created a Life List and encouraged her readers to do the same. I am not usually a writer, pictures and projects are more my style, but here goes.
100 Things I Would Like to Do Before I Leave This Life
In no particular order:
1. Complete my family tree on my Mother’s side of the family. Thanks to some LDS relatives, I already have a good bit of my Dad’s side.
2. Learn how to use that quilting machine that is silently mocking me.
3. Ride a zip line through a tropical rain forest.
4. Scan all of my childhood photos.
5. Scuba dive with my kids.
6. Learn to ride a horse in the English style.
7. Go on a silent retreat.
8. Spent a month or two traveling in India.
9. Rent a house in Northern Italy and invite family and friends for a marathon house party. Something like “Stealing Beauty” without the suicide and intrigue.
10. Hike a 14,oooft peak. http://14ers.com/
11. Adopt some elderly basset hounds and let them live out the rest of their lives on my couch.
12. See whales and dolphins in the wild.
13. Go on a photo safari.
14. Sew something that I would actually wear in public.
15. Age with grace. I am so tired of people not wanting to look their age.
16. Attend an arena concert. Preferably Wembly Arena in London.
17. Go on a vineyard tour.
18. Visit the Library of Congress.
19. See the Grand Canyon.
20. Learn to do graphic design.
21. Take a jewelry making class.
22. Go sailing.
23. Have a really great birthday party. Boy, have I had some bad ones.
24. Live in a really urban environment.
25. Have a picnic in Paris.
26. See the Northern Lights.
27. Ride a camel.
28. Volunteer at the public library.
29. Show my kids where I grew up.
30. See Lake Martin during nesting season, camera in hand.
31. Go to a Mardi Gras parade in small town Louisiana. I have been on the floats, but not seen it from the other side.
32. Go to the Getty in L.A.
33. Go skinny dipping in a hot springs. Or rather, chunky dunking. 
34. Fly first class on an overnight flight.
35. Spend the day in a hammock by the beach.
36. Learn to play chess.
37. Live long enough to really know my grandchildren and spoil them absolutely rotten.
38. Have a real vegetable garden.
39. See my uncle’s memorial in the Philippines.
40. Visit the Isle of Man and look up the dead relatives.
41. Go to a show in the West End.
42. Learn to knit.
43. Ride the bullet train in Japan.
44. Have every box unpacked.
45. Go traveling in Australia.
46. Go on a working vacation. Maybe an archeological dig?
47. Build something useful.
48. Have a beautiful flower garden.
49. Own a hot rod or classic car.
50. Drive that car in local parades.
51. Refurbish a vintage Airstream.
52. Take that shiny Airstream on the road.
53. Go on a sleigh ride.
54. Live in an old house.
55. Build a new house (done, sold and moved on).
56. Go to Rome.
57. Stay on a houseboat.
58. Take a long road trip with my friends.
59. Have my entire house clean and organized at once.
60. Sleep in a four poster bed with curtains.
61. Have chickens.
62. Join a book group.
63. Do yoga on the beach.
64. Have a real conversation with my Mother-in-law. We speak different languages.
65. In order to do #64, become fluent in German.
66. Play hooky with my kids.
67. See Patty Griffin live.
68. See Lyle Lovett live.
69. Learn to make a slipcover.
70. Take a graveyard tour in New Orleans.
71. Go to Vegas.
72. Teach adults English.
73. Be a really quirky, bodacious old woman.
74. See a wild sea turtle underwater again. It was amazing!
75. Foster dogs.
76. Have a raptor perch on my hand.
77. Work with an international aid organization.
78. Successfully shore dive.
79. Once again have a local group of girlfriends that I meet with regularly.
80. Write some public servants thank you letters.
81. Buy a homeless person a hot meal. I would like to make this one a habit.
82. Adopt a sibling group. This one won’t happen, due to our ages and reluctance from my husband, but I think about it often.
83. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
84. Go hiking in Bryce Canyon.
85. See a taping of a TV show.
86. Live without TV and limited internet access for a period of time.
87. Cut my own Christmas tree.
88. Live in the forest.
89. Live near the ocean.
90. Have a local hang out.
91. Have one of my photos published.
92. Ride in a helicopter.
93. Take an overnight bike trip.
94. Go glamping.
95. Go on a trip with my three sisters and maybe my female cousins, even though I would have to firmly bite my tongue the whole way.
96. Tell my family that, no actually I am not a Christian in any way, shape or form and I am extremely liberal, thank you very much. Sigh. Just how many prayer lists do I want to be on? And how many phone calls about me burning in hell? Maybe it’s better to bite my tongue since I see so little of them.They are sure to take it personally.
97. Find a hometown.
98. Pet a penguin.
99. See my kids as happy adults.
100. Keep my mind active.
