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:
- Become certified in First Aid and CPR
- Donate blood 6 times (the maximum) per year
- Visit Yellowstone National Park and/or Grand Canyon with my family
- Travel to at least 5 states I’ve never been to before
- Attend games at least 5 MLB ballparks I’ve never been to before
- Visit two foreign countries I’ve never been to before
- Write a book (perhaps even try to get it published)
- Participate in Walk for Hunger and/or Bikes Not Bombs Bike-A-Thon every year
- Audition (and hopefully perform) for the Revels again
- Enter (and hopefully win) USS Constitution turnaround lottery
- Ride in an open-cockpit biplane and/or a hot air balloon
- Take up birding
- Read a classic Russian novel
- Try singing with a barbershop quartet
- Participate in an atlas-based road rally
- Perform karaoke
- Take a martial arts class
- Paddle on the Charles River
- Play croquet in strange places
- Volunteer with Bikes Not Bombs and/or Boston Bicyclists Union
- Try rock climbing
- Visit the Great Dismal Swamp
- Write in my journal more regularly
- Climb to the highest points in each of the New England states and ccomplete hiking up all the 4000 footers in New England
- Serve in a ministry in our church community
- Walk inside the Mapparium
- Take the tour at the Sam Adams Brewery
- Become a patron of the arts by getting a subscription to a symphony, dance, or theatre series
- Through hike the AT
- See the reenactment on Lexington Green on Patriots Day
- Go to a drive-in movie for the first time
- Take kids to the balloon parade in Stamford, CT
- Complete my Around the World for a Good Book project
- Build a new playhouse for the kids in the backyard
- Take a storytelling class and perform a story to a live audience
- Attend 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada
- Visit maritime Canada
- Play curling
- Visit Susan’s Michigan
- 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.
Posted by Tanja on 19 November 2013 at 2:35 am
I can help you with the rock-climbing; just come to Kastelruth again (we could do it in Innsbruck, too) :) Cheers, HB again and good luck for all your projects, Tanja
Posted by Liam on 19 November 2013 at 9:45 am
That would be fun! I’d love to return to Kastelruth or visit Innsbruck for the first time.