Here are my 30 before 30 (in no particular order):
- See Sufjan Stevens in concert
- Eat lobster
- Live within walking distance of a coffee shop/craft store/fancy cooking store (any would do)
- Write a song other than ones I make up on the spot every day
- See the Rocky Mountains
- Take dance lessons
- Completely gut and renovate an old house
- Land a permanent contract job
- Take voice lessons
- Talk in an accent for an evening in order to convince a stranger that it’s real
- Take a fancy cooking course (or several)
- See Ingrid Michaelson in concert
- Be a part of a show where people pay $20.00 or more to see
- Sing in front of a crowd
- See a show on Broadway
- Hit up a jazz club in downtown Montreal (must be drinking a martini when this occurs)
- Fall in love
- Teach nieces and nephews a choreographed song and dance number
- See the ocean (any one will do)
- Adopt a Greyhound dog
- Publish a children's book (or three)
- Try my hand at some stand-up comedy
- Travel to the east coast
- Make flan
- Host an unnecessarily fancy dinner party (serve flan)
- Go scuba diving
- Babies! Birth, adopt, foster – any way they choose to come to me.
- Oh, get married (that first...then babies)
- Preach a sermon
- Change someone’s life (for the better)