The Life List

1. Attend a guided Buddhist meditation
2. Attend a Seder
3. Become conversational in French
4. Bike the C&O Canal
5. Buy a house
6. Compete in an Ironman
7. Do a Napa Valley Wine Tour
8. Eat croissants in Paris
9. Eat pizza in Italy
10. Fly a kite at the Washington monument
11. Follow the John Muir Trail
12. Get a facial
13. Get married
14. Get running coach certification
15. Give up television for an entire year
16. Go fishing
17. Go Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center
18. Go on a yoga retreat
19. Go sailing
20. Go to the Kentucky Derby (and wear a big ass hat)
21. Go to Vegas
22. Go vegan for a month
23. Have a child (or two…)
24. Hike Machu Picchu
25. Host a Thanksgiving dinner
26. Learn how to do a back flip
27. Learn to play the piano
28. Learn to shoot a gun
29. Learn to ski
30. Make every single recipe from a single cookbook
31. Make my own bread for a year
32. Own a diner
33. Participate in NaNoWriMo
34. Read all of the books from Modern Library’s “100 Best Novels” list
35. Read War and Peace
36. Ride a roller coaster with a loop
37. Run the Big Sur Marathon
38. Run the Boston Marathon
39. Run the JFK 50 miler
40. See the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center
41. See the Galapagos Islands
42. See the Grand Canyon
43. See Fallingwater
44. See the Northern Lights
45. See the Statue of Liberty
46. See Yellowstone
47. See Yosemite
48. Take a cake decorating class
49. Take a make-up application class
50. Take an art history course
51. Take one photograph each day for a year
52. Visit Prague at Christmastime
53. Visit everything from the Smithsonian’s 43 Places to See Before You Die
54. Write in a journal everyday for a year