I first started a "Bucket List" when I was 18 years old, in a tattered old diary. These are more or less ordered from most recent additions to the original life goals ...
Have a short film premiere at Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) or some other film festival like it.
Publish a children's story.
Pick up a hitchhiker.
Attend a fancy/relaxing/famous person writing workshop.
Learn to play the piano like that guy at the VA.
Start a freebox.
Meet my grandchildren.
Go sky diving?
Meet with a medium - I saw Suzi Caffreys, a "psychic medium," with Southworth Intuitive Consulting Services on 4/9/2015. My mind was not blown and I did not speak with my mom, but I was instructed "not to expand," and told poetically how Granny is a special guardian angel to Francine.
Earn a PhD.
Go to graduate school - earned Master's of Science in Communication Disorders and Sciences at UO in June 2011
Volunteer abroad.
Get married - married Alex Close 8/29/2009
See penguins - in Punta Tumba, Argentina in 2008
Raise chickens.
Milk a cow.
Spend a summer as a campground host.
Sew myself a dress.
Drive a sports car.
Live and work abroad.
Go hang-gliding - went paragliding over Telluride with RT in 2005
Visit all 50 states.
Go on a canopy tour - 2004 in Costa Rica with Stacy
Teach a class - designed and taught a "Talk With Me" class with Rach in 2014 via WLPRD
Fly in a helicopter - in 2006 flew over Iguazu Falls from Argentina with LVB
Hike Machu Pichu.
Take a big trip by train.
Shoot a gun - Sherwood gun club, .22 rifle, with Dad, Alex and Francine in 2014
Learn to fly.
Live alone - in 2010 Alex returned to PDX and I stayed in Eugene to finish graduate school
Complete a triathlon.
Use a trapeze.
Do a tree climb.
Visit a community that lives off the grid.
Go to a swinger's club.
Anonymously pay for someone's bill.
Be nude.
Go camping alone.
Walk the Camino -
walked Leon to Santiago de Compestela (and to the Atlantic) with my dad, May/June 2016
Eat from my own garden - Alex built a planter box in 2012 and we ate tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, strawberries, and blueberries
Own a home - bought our place in Maplewood, moved January 2009
Travel Ireland with Alex - four generations of Doherty toured the homeland in June 2015
Bike in Italy.
Ride in a hot air balloon.
Have a family - Francine Lynn Close born 3/19/12
Complete a marathon - walked the Portland Marathon without training in 2003 with Dad; ran first half in Vancouver BC with Dad and Bri; completed two more in 2009 with a 1:52 PR
Get certified to teach yoga.
Write a book.
Write a book that people read.
Get paid to write a book that people read.
Summit a mountain - hiked Mt. Sneffels in 2004 with Stacy; hiked South Sister in 2010 with Alex
Overcome fear of flying - flew to London in 2002 to study abroad in Ireland
Save a life.
Leave the world a better place than I found it.
Hike in Hawaii - honeymooned in Kauai 2009, dayhiked 10 miles along the Napoli coast
Fall in love - met and fell in love with Alex in 2006
Visit the British Isles - studied abroad in Galway Ireland during junior year of college in 2003
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