1. Life List

    This is something I’ve wanted to do for a long time, and I’ve finally gotten over the “chessiness” of it. Props to my sister-in-law, Abby, and my great friend, Mollie.

    This is just a starting point for a much fuller list. I will continue to add to it. Hopefully after a while it will not be growing faster than I’m accomplishing. I gladly welcome suggestions

    In no particular order:

    • Write and publish a novel
    • Own a house
    • Spend a week in Greece
    • Learn woodworking
         - Build a house
         - Build a drum kit
    • Start my own craft brewery
    • Get married
    • Be an awesome dad
    • Cut down my own Christmas tree
    • Read every Cormac McCarthy novel
         - The Orchard Keeper
         - Outer Dark   
         - Child of Dark
         - Suttree
         - Blood Meridian or the Even Redness in the West 
         - All the Pretty Horses
         - The Crossing
         - Cities of the Plain
         - No Country for Old Men
         - The Road 
    • Keep a reading journal/blog for every book I read
    • Earn another degree