Thirty-Two Things to Do

1. Give birth (to a human)

2. Try sky-diving

3. Dig clams

4. Ride in a helicopter

5. Travel in all seven continents

6. Visit all fifty states

7. Become a home-owner

8. Keep chickens

9. SCUBA certify

10. Commission a portrait of the two of us

11. Can preserves from wild edibles I forage myself (I'm looking at you, next summer's elderberries)

12. Host a foreign exchange student

13. Volunteer, full-throttle, for a political campaign

14. Take my mom on a tour of Western Europe

15. Drive the entirety of California State Route 1

16. Learn to play piano

17. Canoe in Everglades National Park

18. Employ advances in modern medicine to correct my natural "all but blind" myopia

19. Safari in Botswana

20. Leave a small inheritance to someone

21. Hunt fowl (and clean, cook, and eat any takings)

22. Sow, tend, and harvest a spectacular garden

23. Ride a camel as a means of transit

24. Volunteer at an elephant sanctuary

25. Create a quilt for someone

26. Sew myself a wearable garment

27. Manage a small home apiary

28. Man the signing-in book at my local polling station on voting day. Flip to the page for folks from my neighborhood without needing to ask for their names.

29. Explore a rain forest from within the canopy

30. Learn to climb on a top rope

31. Track genealogical records for my family and my husband's at back to the first US arrivals from the UK, France, Sweden, and Denmark

32. Keep making plenty of lists