40 for the Forties

Today is my fortieth birthday. As I prepare for my next decade, here are forty things I’d like to accomplish in my forties.

Me, forty years ago.

In no particular order:

1. Become certified in First Aid and CPR
2. Donate blood 6 times (the maximum) per year
3. Visit Yellowstone National Park  and/or Grand Canyon with my family
4. Travel to at least 5 states I’ve never been to before
5. Attend games at least 5 MLB ballparks I’ve never been to before
6. Visit two foreign countries I’ve never been to before
7. Write a book (perhaps even try to get it published)
8. Participate in Walk for Hunger  and/or Bikes Not Bombs Bike-A-Thon every year
9. Audition (and hopefully perform) for the Revels again
10. Enter (and hopefully win) USS Constitution turnaround lottery
11. Ride in an open-cockpit biplane and/or a hot air balloon
12. Take up birding
13. Read a classic Russian novel
14. Try singing with a barbershop quartet
15. Participate in an atlas-based road rally
16. Perform karaoke
17. Take a martial arts class
18. Paddle on the Charles River
19. Play croquet in strange places
20. Volunteer with Bikes Not Bombs and/or Boston Bicyclists Union
21. Try rock climbing
22. Visit the Great Dismal Swamp
23. Write in my journal more regularly
24. Climb to the highest points in each of the New England states and ccomplete hiking up all the 4000 footers in New England
25. Serve in a ministry in our church community
26. Walk inside the Mapparium
27. Take the tour at the Sam Adams Brewery
28. Become a patron of the arts by getting a subscription to a symphony, dance, or theatre series
29. Through hike the AT
30. See the reenactment on Lexington Green on Patriots Day
31. Go to a drive-in movie for the first time
32. Take kids to the  balloon parade in Stamford, CT
33. Complete my Around the World for a Good Book project
34. Build a new playhouse for the kids in the backyard
35. Take a storytelling class and perform a story to a live audience
36. Attend 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada
37. Visit maritime Canada
38. Play curling
39. Visit Susan’s Michigan
40. Get an SLR camera and learn how to take photos

If you have any suggestions for anything else I should try, let me know in the comments.

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