I love the idea of a life list. Credit to Maggie for the idea — and for a couple entries. I don’t apologize. They’re good things to have on a list.

• Drive the Nürburgring
• Paint a mural on a wall
• Spend a year taking pictures every day
• Own a cottage in a forest
• Be fluent in German
• Zip line through a canopy
• Picnic in the Parc du Champs de Mars
• See the Hagia Sofia
• Start my own business
• See the aurora borealis
• Quit smoking
• Dip my toes in the Mediterranean
• Cruise to Alaska
• Eat pizza in Naples
• Show Loki my Chicago
• Go to Wave Gotik Treffen – properly
• Lose weight
• Eat pretzel rolls in Germany
• Make soap
• Remove money as a concern
• See the sunrise at Stonehenge on the Solstice
• See the mosaics in Ravenna
• Sail on a tall ship
• Swim with the dolphins
• Live in another country for a year
• Build a kebab pit in the back yard
• Run our house on solar or wind power
• Open a Swiss bank account in Switzerland
• Eat at El Bulli
• Donate a thousand dollars to an animal charity
• See an opera
• Travel on a narrowboat on English canals
• Take a flying lesson
• Help someone learn to read
• Blend my own perfume
• Play a show without getting stage fright
• Be conversational in Russian
• Make 5 different cheeses at home
• Watch a British steeplechase from beside the fences
• Make a proper costume for Halloween
• Leave a note in a crevice in the Western Wall
• See a World Cup match in person
• See the Angkor Wat
• Meet someone I admire, and not say something stupid
• Travel above the Arctic Circle
• Spend a night in a castle
• Build my dream house
• Learn to tango
• Have a croquet party in the back yard
• Watch glassblowers at work in Venice
• See a glacier
• Visit that church made entirely of bones
• Make pad thai at home
• Climb to the top of a lighthouse
• Drive 200mph
• Publish a poem
• Make a stained-glass window
• Take my mom on a tour of places mentioned in Martha Grimes novels
• Sew a quilt
• Go camping in a tent again
• Photograph 100 Buddhas
• Haggle for a something in a souq
• Learn a programming language
• Find my favorite childhood books
• Play a show in Hamburg, so we can say the line
• Cover a wall with snapshots
• Watch a great chef at work
• Eat tapas in Spain
• Grow my own herbs
• Throw a black-tie dinner party
• Write a novel
• Have a Charm City Cakes cake made
• Build Fenris a dog house
• Eat sushi in Japan
• Wear a large hat at the Kentucky Derby, or Royal Ascot
• Pick a sprig of edelweiss
• Create a mosaic
• Ride 500 rollercoasters
• Lap the Top Gear test track
• Take the Eurostar from London to Paris
• Play an alpenhorn
• Take Fenris to play in snow
• Make vegetarian marshmallows
• Make bacon
• Make pastrami
• Make a fabulous cake
• Visit all the dams in Arizona
• Spend a whole day reading

I’ll be crossing some of these off soon =)