Doc. B. called me at work a few weeks ago and asked me if I’d ever made up a bucket list. I responded in the negative but said I’d always wanted to. I spent the rest of my day, well, breaks and lunch, working on ideas. When we came home that night, we opened a bottle of wine and shared what items had made it onto our lists.
What made my list? Okay, if you must know, here you go. And by the way, they are in no particular order, I’m just numbering them since I’m sick of bullets. I live in Atlanta for goodness sakes!
1. Watch a match, in person, at Wimbledon.
2. Learn how to ride a motorcycle.
3. Brew a batch of my own beer or wine.
4. Read at least 25 of the top 100 classics.
5. Travel the length of Route 66 in a 1964 convertible Corvair – color doesn’t matter but light blue would be nice.
6. Learn Spanish by doing an immersion course in another country.
7. Attend the Sundance Film Festival. Bonus bucket points if I bump into Robert Redford or Ashton Kutcher. Triple bonus bucket points if they give me the evil eye. Quadruple bonus bucket points if they smile.
8. Wear a big old Southern Baptist Church hat to the Kentucky Derby and bet on the long shot.
9. Open a Swiss bank account. Even if it's just with the minimum balance.
10. Pick up where my family has left off on researching and keeping up with our family tree.
11. Shave my head – or at least a buzz cut. Maybe when Pam at the hair salon finally agrees to let me go gray?
12. See a psychic – I know – you probably can’t believe I haven’t already seen one.
13. Witness the Northern Lights – doesn’t matter from where.
14. Go to Oktoberfest in Germany and hike in Bavaria (maybe hike first, then beer?).
15. Write a book. Bonus bucket points = write a book and get it published. Triple bonus bucket points = write a book, get it published, and get on Oprah’s book club list – oh wait, will she still do that now that she’s retired?
16. Change my name – first, middle, last or all three – just because I can. Heck, it’s the one thing the legal system might actually let me do.
17. Fly first class to anywhere outside of the continental USA – preferably somewhere in Europe. Maybe that trip to Wimbledon or Germany?
18. Find something to be passionate about. Wonder what that will be? Checking off items on my bucket list perhaps?
What’s on your list? Any of these?
