1 Buy my grandparent’s house.
2 Hike through a rain forest.
3 Learn to take great photos.
4 Write a book and have it published.
5 Learn to throw pottery.
6 Visit Ireland and drink a pint in a pub while singing an Irish bar song.
7 Get good and kissed on top of the Empire State Building.
8 Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
9 Do really expensive tequila shots on a beach in Mexico at sunset.
10 Visit Argentina and eat dulce de leche.
11 Visit Australia to see the bush and the great barrier reef, pet a koala.
12 Make a blueberry pie from blueberries I picked.
13 Go “real camping”, with no showers, and bathe in a river.
14 Learn to drive stick.
15 Own an old Volkswagen bug. (close enough!)
16 Make a bed-size quilt out of re-purposed fabric.
17 Run a marathon.
18 Float on a row boat in the middle of a lake and star-gaze.
19 Road trip somewhere fun.
20 Spend Christmas on the beach in a bikini.
21 Ride in a hot air balloon.
22 Fall madly, hopelessly in love.
23 Witness the Northern Lights.
24 Catch fireflies in a jar on a summer night.
25 Play in the ocean until I am completely exhausted.
26 Adopt a dog from a shelter.
27 Visit a redwood forest and hug a sequoia.
28 Yell a secret into Niagara Falls.
29 Get that tattoo of a feather on my foot.
30 Learn to play a song on guitar.
31 Sponsor a child in a third world country.
32 See the bioluminescent waters in Puerto Rico.
33 Backpack through Europe.
34 Visit Canada.
35 Gallop a horse.
36 Have a vegetable garden.
37 Speak fluent Spanish.
38 Swim with dolphins.
39 Have a picture of me taken with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
40 Make an article of clothing for myself that is acceptable to wear out of the house.
41 Snuggle a manatee.
42 Go whale watching.
43 Have my own weekly or daily radio show.
44 Help build a house in a third world country.
45 Fly a plane.
46 Make a cake from scratch with homemade frosting.
47 Hike in Hawaii and jump of a cliff while yelling “Geronimo!”
48 Eat a bowl of fish stew in an outdoor restaurant on a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean.
49 Hold a tarantula.
50 Drive through the Tuscan countryside in a tiny two-seater car.
51 Give birth.
52 Have a drink or food named after me.
53 Be independently wealthy.
54 Ice skate on a frozen-over lake.
55 Dance at Carnival.
56 Shake Barack Obama’s hand.
57 Crochet an Afghan.
58 Do something I absolutely LOVE for a living.
59 Kiss an elephant on the trunk.
60 Go Parasailing.
61 Throw a huge party for a birthday or anniversary.
62 Make eclairs from scratch.
63 Dog sledding.
64 Have a holi color fight with strangers.
65 Do a huge zip line.
66 Become a person who exercises regularly.
67 Have a cool workplace to which I am a valued contributor.
68 Have set of luxurious personalized stationary.
69 Learn to cook fish.
70 Publish a photograph.
71 Memorize ten inspiring works of poetry.
72 Host a charity event.
73 Get to number 100 on this list.
74 Officiate a wedding ceremony.
75 Live in New York City.
76 Fly through the air with the greatest of ease – on a flying trapeze!
77 Save a life.
78 Cover myself in mud and float in the Dead Sea. (a nod to Nicole for the idea!)
79 Tell a story at the Moth.
80 Take my grandma on vacation.
81 Give someone a rescued kitten or puppy for their birthday.
82 Be one of the people scrubbing ducks and otters with toothbrushes and Dawn after an oil spill.
83 Travel on a private jet.
84 Have a singalong with strangers.
85 Jump into a pool with a happy dress on.
86 Learn the metric system.
87 Stand on Maho Beach in Saint Martin and freak myself out watching the planes land.
88 Take 1000 portraits. (Thank you, Karen, for the inspiration!) cancelled
89 Photograph a music festival as press.
90 Own a perfect “little black dress”.
91 Do an extensive photo project non-professionally, for art’s sake.
92 Fly kites with friends.
93 Become CPR certified.
94 Do another person’s Life List item (that isn’t on my Life List, too) with them.
95 Try indoor or outdoor rock-climbing.
96 Tap a tree to make maple syrup. (Thank you, Luna Pie, for the fab idea!)
97 Letterpress something.
98 Become a member of a spiritually like-minded community.
99 See the world’s largest ball of twine in Cawker City, KS.
100 Run naked through a field.
101 Dance the Pata Pata in a group.
102 Check into all 50 United States with Gowalla.
103 Have a doughnut at Voodoo Doughnut in Portland, Oregon.
104 Vacation in Bora Bora.
105 Be in a book club.
106 Do a gallery show of my photography and have people I love come to see it.
107 Feel the Santa Ana winds.
108 Fancy afternoon tea.
109 Rock the eff out of a one-shouldered dress.
110 Make a baked Alaska with Jen.
111 Make music, or at least some sort of sound, with a trombone.
112 Homemade ice cream, homemade hot fudge, served to friends.
113 Commission a piece of art.
114 Get screeched in on George Street in Newfoundland.
115 Dinner at Per Se.
116 Grow an appreciation and knowledge of good hip-hop.
117 Obtain a bachelors degree.
118 Sing “Laid” by James in karaoke.
119 Scuba diving.
120 Visit Joshua Tree.
121 Scream as loudly as possible.
122 Milk a cow.
123 Ride in a helicopter.
124 Sleep in a yurt.
125 Walk across the Manhattan Bridge while having ice cream.
126 Amber-fest.
127 Pick an orange from a tree and eat it immediately.
128 Get into Gramercy Park