1. Publish or make a major effort to publish a book or chapbook.
2. Publish a story.
3. Read at least one book by each US Poet Laureate.
5. Stay in two more NC B&Bs. Stay tuned!
6. Get back into all my pre-pregnancy work clothes (preferably before age twenty-seven!).
7. Get into the habit of walking/biking/skating at the park with my family three times a week.
8. Take Oliver to an aquarium. (Image: http://maybeitsyou.tumblr.com/post/5694781429)
9. See a Broadway musical in New York City.
10. Read the whole Anne of Green Gables series.
11. Read the whole Wrinkle in Time series.
12. Read the whole Borrowers series.
13. Read all the Dodie Smith books I can find. So far: I Capture the Castle, the Town in Bloom, and The New Moon with the Old. One volume of her autobiography is on its way from Alibris. (Image: http://oporotheca.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-09-16T16:30:00-07:00)
14. Finish Oliver's book with Josh (the first volume, anyway).
15. Take at least two classes.
16. Teach a literature class.
17. Teach a creative writing class.
18. Make a difference in literacy and culture at my school.
19. Decide if I want more kids and if I want a doctoral degree.
20. Have long, black hair like a non-Disney Snow White. (Image: http://www.art-spire.com/photographie/interview-de-felicia-simion-la-photographe-qui-monte/)
21. Get better at staying on top of grading.
22. Go to Maine.
23. Be able to buy books regularly.
24. Make sure one of us reads to Oliver basically every day from day one.
25. Use every room in my house.
26. Read tons of short stories.
27. Pay off credit cards.
28. Have a decent savings account.
25. Use every room in my house.
26. Read tons of short stories.
27. Pay off credit cards.
28. Have a decent savings account.
30. Go to art museums in Washington, DC.
What's on your 30 before 30 or 20 before 20 or 40 before 40 or 100 before 100 list?
I absolutely love reading your lists!
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