Inspired by the Mighty Life List of Maggie Mason:

    1. Build a Mighty Life List
    2. Attend the Indy 500 (preferably while Paul Tracy is racing)
    3. Attend an opera
    4. Take an Alaskan Cruise
    5. Have a vegetable garden
    6. Make a difference in a child’s life
    7. Go parasailing
    8. Have zero credit card debt
    9. Exercise for 45 days straight
    10. Take an African Safari
    11. See the Northern Lights
    12. Visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland
    13. Walk a half-marathon
    14. Plan Sandie’s wedding
    15. Own a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes
    16. Start a compost bucket
    17. Build a playground
    18. Try Kimchi
    19. Attend the Austin City Limits Music Festival
    20. Get Lasik surgery on both eyes
    21. Lose my “bat wings“
    22. Dance burlesque
    23. Live in Detroit proper
    24. Grow sunflowers
    25. Complete a 21 Days of Gratitude exercise
    26. Complete a 30 Days of Fun exercise
    27. Attend a sweat lodge (again)
    28. Bathe in an outdoor bath in Costa Rica
    29. Visit Mugdock Castle in Scotland
    30. Earn a graduate degree
    31. Quit smoking once and for all
    32. Replace my ceiling fans
    33. Live in a home with two bathrooms
    34. Drive Route 66 end-to-end
    35. Own land/a home on the water
    36. Visit Norway
    37. Have a nice lawn
    38. Wear a fresh-picked Hibiscus flower in my hair, in Hawaii
    39. Learn how to play steel guitar
    40. Join a CSA
    41. Dig up all the Yucca plants from my front planter & replace them with gravel and a flowering tree
    42. Paint my bathroom white and chocolate brown
    43. Vacation on a house boat
    44. Collect enough beach glass to make a pretty piece of jewelry with elMomo
    45. Reconnect with my best friend from childhood, Gaby Prouty
    46. Ride the Snow Train through Agawa Canyon
    47. Participate in at least one Detroit Restaurant Week
    48. Have 6 months of expenses in a savings account
    49. Karaoke on Bourbon Street
    50. Get remarried – preferably to my now-husband