The LIST: 1lifetime, 100 items.

Trish’s “Life List”
The first 100.
Get Ready. Here it comes, in no specific order.

1. Learn to speak Tagalog
2. Become a Doctor
3. Get my 2nd Dan black belt in WTF Taekwondo
4. Win a gold medal in a black belt sparring match
5. Break 5 stacked bricks with my hand
6. Fly an aircraft August 2009
7. Deliver a baby
8. Perform a life-saving surgery
9. Read the dictionary, front to back
10. Read the Encyclopedia Britannica, front to back
11. Write a book and get it Published so I can take it out at the library
12. Raise children to be strong, moral individuals
13. Learn to invest
14. Have $1,000,000 in a savings account
15. Be an A student (no minuses!)
16. Run some kind of marathon
17. Work with Doctors without Borders
18. Learn to love math, play with it, become “a math person” 2009 (ongoing)
19. Sing on every continent (not professionally :))
20. Learn to ride a horse
21. Spend time interacting with
a. Gorillas
b. Chimps
c. Bonobos
d. Whales
e. Dolphins
22. Ride an elephant
23. Ride a train across Canada
24. Do 100 real push-ups without stopping
25. Do 200 sit-ups without stopping
26. Find kin in Europe (Weymouth?)
27. Write a song. Compose it. Play it.
28. Become familiar with the works of Whitman, Dillard, Thomas, Suzuki, Twain, Goethe, and others…
29. Become familiar with the works of Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Stravinsky
30.Try out
a. Archery
b. Gun Skeet Shooting December 2009
c. Boomerang
d. Skim board Summer 2009

e. Snow board March 2010
f. E-bay 2009
31. Light a fire without matches or a lighter or paper
32. Learn to play piano (and read piano music)
33. Learn musical theory
34. Learn to Ballroom dance
35. Learn American Sign Language
36. Learn to read Braille
37. Own a snake, and a large or a very cool spider
38. Learn to paint
39. Sell my own drawing or painting (or at least have one displayed somewhere public)
40. Act the lead in a play
41. Get on Oprah
42. Write a letter to a president or prime minister
43. Become an advocate, at least part time 2008

44. Learn the workings of your average pipe bombApril 08
45. Found a non-profit organization or charity Babes Go Bare, 2009
46. Visit Easter Island
47. Visit Paris
48. Visit Venice
49. Go to Egypt, see the pyramids
50. Go to Rome
51. Go to Greece and eat olives and feta cheese
52. See Koln Cathedral, in Germany
53. See live,
a. Lions
b. Tigers
c. Sloths
d. Venus fly traps 2009
e. Those big flowers that smell like rotting meat
f. Narwhals
g. Polar bears
54. See leaf cutter ants and poison dart frogs in Brazil.
55. Visit the Dutch Tulip Fields, in bloom
56. Perform surgery WITH a family member
57. Visit the remains of Auschwitz (for perspective)
58. Address a group of college/university students as a guest speaker
59. Address a kindergarten class as a guest speaker
60. Be photographed nude (tastefully!)
a. Now Babes Go Bare For Cancer, 2009
b. During pregnancy
c. After pregnancy with baby
d. Every decade thereafter
61. Watch a lightning storm (take pictures)
62. Be out to sea so far it’s only horizon for 360 degrees
63. Drive in a mack truck with my mother
64.Be honest with my children about sex.
65. Eat sushi in Japan
66. Read 500 books (including Sherlock Holmes, East of Eden April 2010, A Million Little Pieces, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, the original books of the Hunchback of Notre Dame and Phantom of the Opera.…)
67. Get at least 1 poem published
68. Start a scholarship for an inner city school
69. Invent something (preferably with a patent)
70. Taste real truffles
71. Do a scorpion kick
72. Write a screen play
73. End racism in one place, any place, if only for a short time
74. Maintain a garden for 1 full year, and journal the experience
75. Be written about/write an article for a big magazine or newspaper 2009/10 Babes go Bare
76. Go to Timbuktu
77. Get airbrush painted. Again, nude.
78. Donate blood 3 times
79. Donate most of my hair to Locks of Love Babes Go Bare, 2010
80. Knit a whole scarf
81. Eat Lobster in Maine. Or the Philippines.
82. Go to the Opera in a gownApril 08
83. See a Broadway musical
84. Make something by blowing glass
85. Make a vase on a pottery wheel
86. Learn to weld
87. Build a table or a cabinet
88. Carve something in relief
89. See the aurora borealis
90. Stay in the ice hotel in Quebec
91. Publish a comic the Martlet Editorial Comic, July 2009
92. Publish at least 5 essays
93. Ride a unicycle
94. Juggle
95. Play Au Privave at bop speed, and become familiar with all the jazz standards in my E flat real book.
96. Stonehenge
97. Solve a Rubiks cube
98. Learn to drive stick shift
99. Inspire one person to do something great Evgeny, Improvising for Cancer.
100. Practice medicine in a rural community for more than 1 month.


These are the things I want to do in the span of my life. I only get one shot, so why not do everything? EVERTHING. This is what I intend to do. I'll post my progress here :)

check out www.johngoddard.info to see what possessed me to do this. And I will do this.