"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

-Mark Twain

Things I need to do

1. learn Italian
2. visit Italy with our family and Kat's family
3. live in Italy for a few months
4. sew a quilt
5. learn to knit
6. begin and finish my babette blanket
7. learn Hebrew
8. take the GRE
9. get a degree in public health
10. hike the Appalachian trail with my family
11. exercise regularly
12. visit Israel
13. one day hold a leadership position at our synagogue
14. continue to raise spirited, curious children
15. see an NFL game, preferably the Giants
16. visit Maya Lin's Civil Rights Memorial
17. go on a yoga retreat
18. go on an art/creativity retreat
19. take art classes- painting, drawing, ceramics
20. meditate regularly
21. have a room of my own for art, craft, and self
22. take more photos
23. learn to take better photos
24. write a children's book
25. declutter and keep it that way
26. host dinner parties
27. journal regularly
28. meet bloggers I adore in person, like Jen Lemen, Stuntmother, the Silent K, OMSH, Elsita, que Jimenez, and more!
29. furnish house, gradually, so that it looks more like a grown-up residence than a college dorm
30. plant a strawberry patch
31. have a will written for us, with guardians for our children named (knock on wood)
32. complete NaBloPoMo this year
33. do a fundraiser for Nothing but Nets
34. raise enough funds to buy a Heifer ark
35. attend Blogher
36. backpack with my husband
37. teach my children what I've learned by taking risks
38. live in NYC again