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Dave

is doing better every day



I'm doing 39 things
  

Dave's Life List

  1. 1. live my one wild and precious life
    43 entries . 47 cheers     		5 people
  2. 2. change the world, twenty minutes at a time
    19 entries . 16 cheers     		17 people
  3. 3. give back more than I take;in my work, my family, my community, and in the community of humankind
    2 entries . 14 cheers     		3 people
  4. 4. reflect on things for which I'm grateful
    51 entries . 12 cheers     		15 people
  5. 5. post random thoughts from my journal
    19 entries . 10 cheers     		1 person
  6. 6. Sit by the side of the road, drinking white wine and eating local cheese, in a bistro in Saumur, France
    4 entries . 12 cheers     		1 person
  7. 7. start a blog
    4 entries . 12 cheers     		913 people
  8. 8. write some short fiction
    4 entries . 8 cheers     		2 people
  9. 9. write a story in journal form, and post it here
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		1 person
  10. 10. read all the volumes of my journal from beginning to end
    12 entries . 8 cheers     		1 person
  11. 11. study archaeology
    5 entries . 21 cheers     		24 people
  12. 12. contribute to the field of Oceanography
    1 entry . 7 cheers     		1 person
  13. 13. create a board game
    2 entries . 12 cheers     		208 people
  14. 14. see my kids graduate college
    1 entry . 9 cheers     		11 people
  15. 15. Travel in space
    4 entries . 5 cheers     		502 people
  16. 16. Pay it Forward
    2 entries . 15 cheers     		633 people
  17. 17. have grandchildren
    5 cheers     		70 people
  18. 18. live in a foreign country
    1 entry . 11 cheers     		2,408 people
  19. 19. help my kids get what they want out of life
    1 entry . 11 cheers     		3 people
  20. 20. Work on my Secret Goal
    8 entries . 10 cheers     		58 people
  21. 21. read and discuss cutting-edge fiction with other 43T'ers
    2 entries . 3 cheers     		1 person
  22. 22. use 43T more like a blog-site and less like a chat-room
    2 entries . 5 cheers     		1 person
  23. 23. Drench myself in words unspoken, Live my life with arms wide open, Today is where my book begins, the rest is still unwritten
    2 entries . 14 cheers     		1 person
  24. 24. Fund micro-loans through Kiva.org
    1 entry . 11 cheers     		3 people
  25. 25. upload all my music to my iPod
    3 entries . 5 cheers     		11 people
  26. 26. become a wine connoisseur
    5 entries . 3 cheers     		196 people
  27. 27. drink responsibly
    5 entries . 1 cheer     		4 people
  28. 28. Spend less than I make
    2 entries . 11 cheers     		3 people
  29. 29. make a smaller ecological footprint
    47 team members . 6 entries . 11 cheers     		1,044 people
  30. 30. live small
    1 entry . 6 cheers     		3 people
  31. 31. publish my first piece of short fiction
    4 entries . 4 cheers     		1 person
  32. 32. Do something useful with my facebook account
    3 entries . 2 cheers     		1 person
  33. 33. list 43 things I love about the Constitution of the United States
    2 entries . 2 cheers     		4 people
  34. 34. Don't go broke in 2009
    2 entries     		1 person
  35. 35. Heal my back
    4 entries . 1 cheer     		12 people
  36. 36. have a waist to height ratio of 0.5
    5 entries     		1 person
  37. 37. Find my 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon
    1 entry . 2 cheers     		9 people
  38. 38. read 25 books in 2009
    10 entries . 2 cheers     		46 people
  39. 39. write daily
    3 team members . 22 entries . 2 cheers     		231 people

How I did it
How to write like Amy Hempel
It took me
7 months
It made me
content

How I did it: After reading a couple of books by Amy Hempel, I became fascinated with her use of the strong narrator, and an almost minimalist approach to content.One day I just cracked off a piece using an approach of a strong narrator.  Then I edited it down to less than half of the original text.  Then I went back and cleaned up the rough edges. Read how I did it…

Oct 15, 05:33PM PDT | 0 comments


Recent entries
write daily (read all 22 entries…)
missed a week 2 days ago

I forgot to post my status last week:

Week of June 15th – Six of seven.
Week of June 22nd – Five of seven.

It seems that as my health improves, my writing time seems to evaporate. Specifically, exercise and writing collide, since they both are done in the morning, and both are “discretionary” activities.

Jul 01, 10:42AM PDT | 2 cheers | 1 comment


write daily (read all 22 entries…)
another week 3 weeks ago

seven pages in seven days. i’m not impressed. i could be writing more. then again, most of my energy seems to be centered on healing my back right now…

Jun 09, 05:13PM PDT | 3 cheers | 2 comments


reflect on things for which I'm grateful (read all 51 entries…)
gratitude in a difficult time 4 weeks ago

1) my mom and dad, who are still healthy enough to be in my life, and the lives of my children

2) $0.99 ice packs that are perfect for chilling my spine down

3) The portability of my life/work/worldview in the form of my laptop

4) Oblivion

5) Carrot juice. (I know it was on the last one, but I really am grateful for it!)

May 31, 03:04PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments


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Dance in the rain overcome my shyness save up $500 go to Pennsic Save money respect my body Hamish Rickerby wants to stop biting my nails win a psp on blingo.com Speak French fluently be a foster parent see a whale laugh genuinely every day go to Malaysia invent a new sex position learn to speak Lithuanian get married before I'm 35 keep chickens work in an orphanage finish writing all the books I have started writing create an online cv website Back2beingsexy wants to Be confident dream doctor make a collage write to a soldier Worry less. cook new foods
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