list 100 memories that are meaningful to me (happy or sad and anything outside and in between)

14:Seeing “Les Mis” on Broadway

15:Graduating from U of Washington. The moments in the stadium were rapturous. My family came to see me. What an accomplishment.

16:Playing drunk badmitten at my friends cabin in the mountains, watching hummingbirds and chipmunks come up to the porch for snacks, and sleeping in the attic.

17:Walking inside a fallen redwood tree

12: The 5 minute interview for my first job, within the same career I am still in 20 years later.

13: Splashing in the Atlantic ocean at age 4 and age 16.

8. my dearest friend calling me the morning of 9/11, her voice on the answering machine woke me up, told me to turn on the TV to see the horror. She made it a little easier to take.

9. writing a book at age 5 which I still have (The Talking Apple)

10. See ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Star Wars with my parents when I was a little kid. They were magic.

11. learning to drive and knowing that now I could go anywhere

1—-Getting on a horse at age 8 at horse camp and realizing that the connection between myself and the horse made us a team, one unit. That first moment of the human-animal bond.

2—-Seeing my baby sister for the first time and wondering what our relationship would be like later in life.

3—-Getting my first apartment when I was 21.

4—-Climbing Magnolia tree we had in the backyard when we lived in Louisinana and picking the fat, red seeds out of the cones.

5—-Meeting my best friend in junior year in high school and feeling the “click”

6—-Getting an A+ and positive comments on essays that I wrote.

7—-Realizing my parents were people just like everyone else and capable of faults and foibles. They were no longer super-human. This was scary and sad.