Saturday, July 11, 2009

The bucket is hall full. (Italicized sentences = been there, done that.)

Follow my everyday adventures here:

Take surf lessons.
Be a guest at the Ice Hotel.
Take a mixed-medium art class.
Meet Willie Nelson.
Take a hot air balloon ride.
Write a 'collections' book.
Keep lifelong friendships.
Help form a girl's soccer team.
Spend a month in an Italian chateau.
Relax in the Florida Keys.
Skydive.
Refurbish our inherited 1950s wooden boat and name it 'Rolls Royce' after Papa Royce.
Visit Camp Getaway with my best friend, Denise.
Attend a Snoop Dogg concert with a mini mock gun keychain toting wild child.
Wax poetic about the Electric Lounge, Liberty Lunch and other Austin, TX bygones.
Be a boys-only mama.
Live in a yurt.
Make a new friend every year.
Learn to silence the noise.
Plan a semi-annual girlfriends' beach cottage weekend.
Attend jazz fest in New Orleans.
Live in three states in three years.
See Tom Petty, Willie and Bob Dylan perform at a baseball field.
Give a homeless guy a ride. Almost.
Drink sangria in Spain with Chris.
Write a song.
Recapture slow summertime memories with our boys.
Interview Enzo Stuarti at his fantastical home.
Release labels and expectations.
Experience working at dot-com company, Yahoo! style.
Buy a '64 sky blue Thunderbird.
Have a loyal decade-old Dobie.
Take a trapeze lesson.
Embrace normalcy.
Practice vinyasa bikrim yoga regularly.
Buy a tutu-esque skirt.
Camp out with the boys.
Grow a vegetable garden.
Laugh everyday with little humans.
Teach an ESL class to American immigrants.
Live as debt-free as possible.
Wear a Homecoming Queen crown.
Swing in a hammock in Costa Rica.
Be a Big Sister in the BBBS program.
Go on safari in Africa.
Visit Chinati Springs on our honeymoon, and soak in a rose petal-filled bathtub.
Meet the love of my life at my 10-ten year high school reunion.
Try a new style/wardrobe.
Watch "The Usual Suspects" 10 times.
Buy a cruising bicycle.
Snowboard
Take a solo European adventure.
Host a snow cone party.
Wear an Eva Kenevel costume for Halloween.
Ride in a pimped-out limo.
Help organize a fabulous 20-year high school reunion.
Experience daily life in -10 degrees.
Order 'purple haze' from an Amsterdam coffeehouse.
Ditto that in 110 degrees.
Decide design for tattoo #2.
Run downhill in heels from a marathon-trained, half-dressed crackhead.
Have a Lucy-style pie-throwing party.
Attend a wildly inventive elementary school with no grades, walls or limits.
Co-pilot an WWII Confederate Airforce, open cock-pit biplane.
Learn to roll sushi.
Meet the late Ann Richards at church.
Remember birthdays.
Learn about music from Dad and his vast album collection.
Run with the bulls in Pamplona.
Throw my parents a 40th wedding anniversary bash.
Take a flute lesson from a 100-year-old man.
Met author David Sedaris, where he smoked in a non-smoking bookstore.
Buy a house with built-in bookshelves and a wrap-around porch.
Bask in Miami Beach's Euro-coolness.
Admire my Mom from her friends' perspectives.
Attend Burning Man with girlfriends, with footage shown on The Travel Channel.
Plan 2010 NYC trip.
Go white water rafting.
Take photojournalistic family photos.
Keep list alive and updated.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

PAY THE WRITER

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Anarchy Lives

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