The “100 Things” Life List

Inspired by Maggie and Karen, early in 2010 I started jotting down my own “100 Things” life list. The first 20 or so came quite easily. By the time I reached 50, I was really struggling. It’s been a great exercise though – writing these things down.

In alphabetical order, The “100 Things” Life List:

1. Add cherry blossoms to my kanji “14” tattoo
2. Attend an inaugural ball
3. Attend an Olympic event
4. Attend Burning Man
5. Attend Comic-Con
6. Attend Mardi Gras
7. Bake and decorate a 3-tiered cake for Marcel’s 40th birthday
8. Beat my dad at chess
9. Buy a vintage wine from my birthday year
10. Buy vintage port from my birthday year
11. Collaborate with another photographer on a project / website / book
12. Catch and cook salmon / trout on an open fire
13. Create a website to catalog all my Polaroids Completed: 28 June 2011
14. Create a will
15. Create a wine cellar
16. Create a workspace that inspires me
17. Cross-stitch a simple pattern
18. Design a font
19. Design a series of simple greeting cards
20. Drink 50 different whisky’s in Scotland
21. Drink a mint julep at the Kentucky Derby
22. Drive the 101
23. Eat at a restaurant with a Micheline star
24. Eat waffles in Brussels
25. Enlarge and hang more of my own photos around the house
26. Exhibit a photo series at the NMAAHC
27. Finish my degree
28. Fix up an older home (circa < 1930)
29. Host a fancy dress Christmas party
30. Go camping in Yosemite Park
31. Go dog sledding
32. Go fly fishing
33. Go on an “Adventure Cruise” to Antarctica
34. Go skinny dipping
35. Go to a caviar and vodka tasting
36. Host a Tea Party with a “Roaring ‘20s” theme
37. Keep a vegetable patch
38. Keep bees
39. Knit a scarf
40. Launch a commercial web project in 2012
41. Learn to blow glass
42. Learn to drift a car
43. Learn to juggle
44. Learn to play the guitar
45. Learn to play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” on the violin
46. Learn to ride a motorcycle
47. Learn to screen print
48. Learn to scuba dive
49. Learn to throw a bowl / pot / vase
50. Lip-lock with Marcel on New Years in Times Square
51. Make a perfume
52. Make a quilt with my mom
53. Make bread with flour from the mill in Ravenstein
54. Motorcycle cross-country with Marcel, Leah, and Kevin
55. Own a Hasselblad 500CM
56. Own a string of pearls
57. Organise my photo archive
58. Photograph a Joshua Tree
59. Photograph all the neighbourhoods I’ve lived while in NL
60. Photograph my entire extended family
61. Photograph the homes I lived in before I was 21
62. Pick berries and make jam
63. Pick olives and press olive oil
64. Picnic on The Mall for 4th of July
65. Pop Dom Perignon on every special occassion for a year
66. Put together my own tea blend
67. Purchase a few acres of land in Alaska and Montana
68. Redesign my website and keep it up regularly for at least a year
69. (re)Read all 100 books on BBC’s “Big Read” book list
70. Ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange
71. Relocate to the US before 2012
72. Replace my mom’s ukulele that was stolen when I left it in the car overnight
73. Ride in a hot air balloon Completed: 19 May 2011
74. Take Amtrak from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine
75. Tango in Argentina
76. Sail in my own sloop
77. Self-publish a run of 100 photo books and give them away to friends and family
78. Sew a dress and wear it in public
79. Shear a sheep
80. Shoot a photo series for Essence magazine
81. Sing at a karaoke bar
82. Sit on a SxSW panel
83. Sky dive
84. Spend a long weekend in Istanbul
85. Spend a long weekend in Marrakesh
86. Spend a long weekend on Terschelling
87. Spend a night in the “John & Yoko” suite at the Hilton Hotel Amsterdam
88. Spend Christmas at the Ice Hotel in Swedish Lapland
89. Sponsor a child through a K-12 private school
90. Take a letterpress printing class
91. Take part in a tea ceremony
92. Take part in the annual New Years Dip into the North Sea
93. Throw an extravagant wedding anniversary party
94. Tour New England in the fall
95. Tour Japan by motorcycle
96. Visit all 12 Dutch provinces
97. Visit all 50 States and Territories with Marcel
98. Visit Cuba
99. Visit Musée d’Orsay in Paris
100. Wear a snazzy hat to Ladies Day at Ascot
08 January 2011