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1. go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
18,103 people
2. learn to speak french
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3. become a book editor
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4. see the aurora borealis
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5. Send a message in a bottle
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6. learn to speak italian
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7. Attend a film premiere
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8. Learn to bake great homemade bread
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9. Go to a corn maze
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10. visit all 50 states
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11. write a book and have it published
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12. Save up six months worth of living expenses
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13. fly a kite
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14. get a passport
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15. actually read every book i own
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16. find a great job
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17. go to burning man
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18. plant a garden
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19. get a bachelor's degree
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20. I want to leave a mix cd/tape on a bench
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21. learn sign language
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22. have the best year of my life
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23. learn how to belly dance
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24. freelance at editing and proofreading
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25. pray without ceasing
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26. work because I like to, not because I have to
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27. go organic
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28. learn to salsa dance
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29. live passionately every single day
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30. write a book
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31. Read Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
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32. see tilly and the wall live
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33. Join the Peace Corps
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34. backpack through Europe
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35. run a marathon
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36.

list 50 women little girls should admire instead of symbols of stupidity and weakness
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37. travel the world
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38. recycle more
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39. get my master's degree in english
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40. Find a running buddy
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41. Visit Barcelona
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42. fly in a hot air balloon
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Find a house and make it a home (read all 2 entries…)

Almost there... 21 months ago

I moved! We’ve painted all of the house except for my room and still have some decorating and unpacking to do, but we’ve come a long way since Friday afternoon. I’d say that by next week I can mark this goal as completed.

Sep 20, 2007, 05:03AM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments

Find a house and make it a home (read all 2 entries…)

I found a house! 22 months ago

I signed the lease on Thursday. Now I just have to make it into a home. It needs some sprucing, for sure, but it has potential. I have a great roommate and a yard for my pup. All is well!

Sep 01, 2007, 09:32PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments

list 50 women little girls should admire instead of symbols of stupidity and weakness

Barbara Kingsolver 22 months ago

I’ll admit, I did not look through all four hundred entries to find her name, but she’s not in the most recent two hundred, so I’ll just assume that no one has added her yet.

She’s a good example especially for little girls, because she started her career at the age of nine. Barbara began keeping a diary of poems and stories as a child, and entered every essay contest she knew about. She was first published after writing an essay entitled “Why We Need a New Elementary School,” which appeared in the local newspaper prior to a school-bond election; the bond was passed.

She earned her degree in biology and traveled through Europe before settling in Tucson, Arizona. She wrote her first novel, The Bean Trees entirely at night, in the abundant free time made available by chronic insomnia during pregnancy. The Bean Trees has now been adopted into the core curriculum of high school and college literature classes across the U.S., and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

She has written eleven more books since then, including the novels Animal Dreams , Pigs in Heaven, The Poisonwood Bible, and Prodigal Summer ; a collection of short stories (Homeland ); poetry (Another America ); an oral history (Holding the Line ); two essay collections (High Tide in Tucson, Small Wonder ); a prose-poetry text accompanying the photography of Annie Griffiths Belt (Last Stand ); and most recently, her first full-length narrative non-fiction, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. She has contributed to dozens of literary anthologies, and her reviews and articles have appeared in most major U.S. newspapers and magazines. Her books have earned major literary awards at home and abroad, and in 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal, our nation’s highest honor for service through the arts.

Barbara is married and has two daughters. They live on a farm in Virginia, where they grow organic foods and raise free-range poultry. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle outlines her family’s quest to eat locally grown foods and support local farmers. On May 3rd of this year, she was recognized by the state of New York, and a proclamation now hangs in City Hall, for her efforts in making her voice heard in the community concerning these matter. May 3rd is now known as “Barbara Kingsolver Appreciation Day.”

Essentially, she’s a badass. Well, at least this nerdy girl thinks so.

Aug 26, 2007, 10:41AM PDT | 3 cheers | 1 comment

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