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Mar

What’s On YOUR Bucket List?

Filed in Bits & Pieces Fridays

bucket That’s right, we’re talking bucket lists today. Though, to be honest, I’m not sure I’d ever heard the term “bucket list” until fairly recently (perhaps that’s because I’m getting old enough to need one).

So I’ll tell you some of mine, if you’ll tell me some of yours , okay?

Here we go (in no particular order)…

1) I’ve always had a bizarre desire to climb to the top of a working lighthouse. Doesn’t matter where, I just want to walk up the spiral staircase and stare out at the ocean. Maybe imagine the ships that have been called home because of that actual light…

2) I’d like to spend an entire summer at the beach one year. Doesn’t have to be some fancy house…just something comfortable. Seriously, how cool would it be to walk out your front door into sand and then ocean?!?!?!lauraingallsmap

3) I’d like to go to Walnut Grove, Minnesota and all the other places Laura Ingalls wrote about in her books. 

4) I’d like to see Paris. This is a new entry onto the list because, until this past year, I had zero interest in ever going to this city. For some reason that’s changed. I think, in part, because I realize how much I truly enjoy the hustle and bustle of a real city.

5) I’d like to drive a Zamboni. Just once. I have no idea why.

6) I’d like to meet Mary Higgins Clark and tell her how much she influenced my writing career (not that she probably hasn’t heard that a million times from a million writers but still…).

Oh…and here’s one more. Although I must confess it wasn’t ON my list until after I did it (yes, I’m one of those people who adds things I’ve already done to my to-do list just so I can check it off–*insert evil laugh*) :) .

7) For those of you who may have read my blog toward the end of January, you know I was asked to speak at the President’s Circle NY event for the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America. The venue? Um…Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. mspicture1betterPodium location? Um…in front of a floor-to-ceiling glass room overlooking Times Square. So that’s why I’ve added it to my Bucket List after the fact. Because it was cool and a true once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.  (I think you can click on the picture to get a better look…just remember, I’m in the process of speaking…hence the facial expression).

Those are a few of mine at the moment. Now it’s your turn…

~Elizabeth

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13 Responses to “What’s On YOUR Bucket List?”

  1. Lynn
    March 5th, 2010 at 8:26 am

    I’ll take 1-2-4-6 on your list…my beach vision is probably a little different… Oregon Coast but I’d compromise…(giggle)

    I want to go to Hawaii, have a book (at least one….) published without paying someone to do it… go to New Orleans –visit every state in the union –including Maine–meet Stephen King -preferably over drinks so I’d really talk…

  2. Dru
    March 5th, 2010 at 8:39 am

    I would love to visit every state (27 more to go)
    Have one of my quilt entered into a quilt show
    Visit Italy, especially Rome and Venice
    Meet the authors that I read

  3. Joni
    March 5th, 2010 at 9:01 am

    You can cross #6 off your list soon: MALICE! I’ll introduce you! (Okay, I’ve only met her once, at Malice, but she was lovely lovely lovely; stood and talked to me before the banquet, for 15 minutes, and about everything under the sun.)

  4. Karen in Ohio
    March 5th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    I want to write a novel, and have it published. And Dru, just completing a bed-sized quilt would be wonderful!

    Paris is the most amazing city; you must go there at least once in your life. It’s impossible to spend two minutes together without seeing something exquisitely beautiful; you won’t know where to rest your eyes. Tuscany is another must-see, by the way.

  5. Elizabeth
    March 5th, 2010 at 1:05 pm

    Oooh, Lynn, I think I’ll tweak my own # 6…having dinner with her–with time to really talk–would be awesome! Can you arrange that Joni? :)

    Dru, I like the every state thing. I’ve been up and down the entire eastern coast…and then much of the midwest. I need to count and see where I’m at in terms of states still to go…

    Karen, okay, you just made the urge even stronger.

  6. Shel
    March 5th, 2010 at 2:02 pm

    #1. Go to Malice. Up until I met Julie Hyzy, that was “Go to Bouchercon” but she convinced me Malice is better, lol.
    #2. Travel – there’s too many places I want to see to list them all so I’ll just lump it all into one.
    #3. This one’s more in the realm of fantasy than bucket list. I want to meet Barbara Mertz/Michaels/Elizabeth Peters. But since she’s in her 80’s, lives far away from me, and probably doesn’t do book tours anymore, I’m guessing that one’s not going to happen. Might actually be a good thing, because I think I’d dissolve into a puddle of fangirl if I ever did meet her.

  7. PattyR from ND
    March 5th, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    I just saw that movie “Bucket List” so I am now familiar with the concept. I too would like to visit a light house but I want a haunted one. If you go to Walnut Grove, you for sure have to go to South Dakota and see De Smet and the homestead. But in the summertime as it is very difficult to visit in the winter. I too have few states left I would like to visit, mostly the northeast, especially in the fall. And Alaska. I would like to do Disney World in FLA. England, over seas. And Egypt but everyone tells me not to go. So I would also absolutely love to meet Barbara, as I am a huge fan too.

  8. Joni
    March 5th, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    Shel, I met Barbara/Elizabeth in the lady’s room at Malice a few years back! I didn’t know who she was and was happiy chatting away, when someone else came in and did the fangirl thing. I did pretty much dissolve right there. So, yes, keep Malice on your list, I promise you’ll have a great time when you do make it there! (Barbara might just show up.)

  9. Elizabeth
    March 6th, 2010 at 12:15 am

    Good ones, Shel!

    And Patty, have you seen the homestead in DeSmet? What’s it like?

    And I echo what Joni says…Malice is great (even if I can’t get a sit down meal with MHC :) )

    :)

  10. Nikki
    March 6th, 2010 at 12:51 am

    1. Italy and Hawaii are on the list for travel

    2. Be a published author!

    3. I’m piggybacking on #5 — the zamboni is just COOL!

    3b. Visit the Snoopy ice rink (that has a Snoopy zamboni) in Santa Rosa, California. Charles Schulz actually built it and his wife is still involved.
    http://www.snoopyshomeice.com/

    4. I’d like to meet Ellen Degeneres!

  11. Sharon Mayhew
    March 7th, 2010 at 11:26 pm

    You are more than welcome to come to our cabin sometime…We can stop at on the Wilder home on the way.

    I took Katherine, when she was little, to the top of a lighthouse when we were in England. It was rather scary. The last leg is straight up!

    Very cool speaking engagement! Congratulations!

    My goal for the week is to send you a sheet of interview questions. :) I hope you are doing well.

  12. Elizabeth
    March 8th, 2010 at 9:25 am

    Nikki, LOL. # 5 is fun, isn’t it?

    Sharon, you meet your goal and I’ll do my part! :)

  13. PattyR from ND
    March 8th, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    Elizabeth, I have been to De Smet and it was interesting but small. Kind of off the beaten track, very rural, but I have always liked L.I.W. and decided to go through there on the way back home from Mitchell SD. I can say I’ve been there but to tell you the truth, probably will not do it again. Here is a website about it. http://www.ingallshomestead.com/index.html.

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