outside looking in: sink or swim

So I'm alone with my kids today. There's a sub, but I'm in charge and running the show.

Nobody's dead yet, and nobody's pooped their pants, so I guess it's going pretty good.

100 Things to Do Before I Die

1. See the Grand Canyon
2. Sail around the world in a yacht.
3. Give birth.
4. Swim naked in the sea.
5. Write a book.
6. Visit a medieval European city.
7. Tour Ireland.
8. See the light of learning turn on in a child I teach.
9. Scuba-dive in the Great Barrier Reef.
10. Actually comprehend quantum physics.
11. Teach my own child how to whistle.
12. Learn to play the bass guitar.
13. See a polar bear in its native habitat.
14. Volunteer for a presidential campaign.
15. Participate in an archaeological dig.
16. Find out who really killed JFK
17. Find the love of my life.
18. Take a roadtrip across the US with my best friends.
19. Live in a house by the ocean.
20. Camp out in the desert and watch the stars.
21. Backpack across Europe.
22. Meet Stephen Hawking.
23. Visit the Eiffel Tower.
24. Learn to fly a plane.
25. Mail a love letter.
26. Adopt a dog from a shelter.
27. Swim with a dolphin.
28. Visit Vietnam.
29. Learn to ballroom dance.
30. Write a children's book.
31. Go to Liverpool.
32. Knit a sweater I would actually wear.
33. Take a photography course.
34. Spend a day in a swank spa.
35. Visit all 50 of the United States.
36. Own my own home.
37. Fly a kite on the beach.
38. Be part of a food fight.
39. Host a dinner party.
40. Go skydiving.
41. Visit all seven continents.
42. Drive Highway One with someone I love.
43. Go camping.
44. Visit the Pyramids.
45. Raft down the Colorado River.
46. See a glacier.
47. Own a '68 Mustang convertible.
48. Hike through a South American rain forest.
49. Live in a really small town.
50. Direct a short play or film.
51. Learn to surf.
52. Watch a sunset from a Hawaiian volcano.
53. Tour the castles of England.
54. Participate in a soapbox derby.
55. Visit the Sistine Chapel.
56. Play in the snow with my own kid.
57. Drink in a pub in an Irish village.
58. Build a tree house.
59. Spend 24 hours in daylight.
60. Ride a gondola through the canals of Venice.
61. Ride a canopy zip-line.
62. Make-out during a drive-in movie.
63. Go on a real picnic.
64. Learn to sail.
65. See the old Roman aqueducts.
66. Plant a tree from a seedling, and watch it grow up.
67. Run for local public office.
68. Experience Oktoberfest in Germany.
69. See a shuttle launch live.
70. Karokee and not care how bad I sound.
71. Go horseback riding for real.
72. Drive a motorcycle.
73. Hunt fossils in a creek with my kid.
74. Plant and tend a garden of my own.
75. Write letters to the teachers who inspired me.
76. Learn to whistle with my fingers.
77. Go hang-gliding.
78. Play with my dog on a beach.
79. Visit Tokyo.
80. Complete a 5k.
81. Travel through New Zealand and Australia.
82. Perform a striptease.
83. Just once, feel infinite.
84. Try rock climbing.
85. Learn to perform basic car repairs.
86. Attend my 20-year high school reunion.
87. Visit Niagara Falls.
88. Go to an estate sale and buy up old books.
89. Learn about wine.
90. Visit the Great Wall of China.
91. Be drawn or photographed nude.
92. Build a giant sandcastle.
93. Refinish an old piece of furniture.
94. Join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
95. Complete a NaNoWriMo.
96. Learn to make balloon animals.
97. Live a little more in the now.
98. Own, and regularly use, my own telescope.
99. Jump off a cliff into the ocean.
100. Go on a caper.

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