The List
1. Roast my own coffee
2. Learn how to do a 360 on a bmx or fixed gear
3. Ride my bike to Portland
4. Sell a photo for $
5. Make gifts for people for a year
6. Compete or complete a food challenge at a restaurant
7. Run a half-marathon
8. Have a show with my photographs
9. Tattoo someone
10. Learn photography studio lighting
11. Take a cooking class
12. Make my own beer
13. Cook something that I’ve never cooked before everyday for 30 days
14. Write a song
15. Take photographs in every state
16. Learn to make authentic Mexican restaurant-style salsa
17. Rap
18. Speak at a wedding
19. Speak at a funeral
20. Grow hair out for more than six months
21. Mail framed photograph to a local business
22. Learn to love something that I hate
23. Smoke my own chipotle peppers
24. Make my own salumi
25. Dry age my own steaks
26. Pay for one year of my children’s college
27. Photograph a wedding
28. Own a house with a balcony
29. Hot air balloon
30. Cut 10 inches of hair from a female’s head
31. Master’s degree
32. Learn to ride a motorcycle
33. Win a contest
34. Buy a stranger’s dinner
35. Buy someone a gift that makes them cry
36. Paint a picture and mail it to someone anonymously
37. Give away something that is precious to me
38. Go somewhere tourist-y and not see any attractions
39. Take a day off of work to complete one of these
40. Work swing shift at a job
41. Eat authentic Chicago deep dish pizza
42. Eat authentic Jamaican jerk chicken
43. Eat authentic French baguette
44. Eat foie gras
45. Spend time in various places of worship
46. Write a letter to my mother
47. Leave a box of great things on a stranger’s doorstep
48. Be able to do 100+ pushups
49. Take an art class
50. Pass the equator
51. Learn how to resurface hardwood floors
52. Throw a surprise party
53. Send flowers to someone that needs to hear how much I appreciate them
54. Teach other teachers
55. Speak at a college
56. Have something published
57. Surprise my son with an awesome vacation
58. Start a scholarship for high school students who have to work after school rather than participate in sports or clubs
59. Cook everything in a cookbook
60. Learn to operate an espresso machine
61. Drink beers on a rooftop in a city
62. Take a picture of someone’s house and mail it to them anonymously
63. Serve food to homeless people
64. Hunt game birds
65. Learn to jump into water without plugging my nose
66. Pick oranges
67. Make some article of clothing
68. Take active interest in one of my child’s interests
69. Write a children’s story
70. Drive to a state to eat a restaurant that I’ve read about
71. Fix something myself on a car
72. Build a bike without having to go to a bike shop
73. Build a tree house
74. Make Chinese floating lantern
75. Shave my head bald (skin)
76. Take cross fit seriously for three months
77. Vegetarian for three months
78. Take a stranger’s portrait (preferably the Tacoma Walker or someone I admire)
79. Let my son pick a vacation destination
80. Swim in an alpine lake
81. Tour candy factory
82. Spend the night alone in the wilderness
83. Live in a rural area
84. Live in a different state
85. Eat a $100 dollar steak
86. Spend an entire paycheck in one day
87. Get a meaningless tattoo
88. Buy x-mas presents for kids in need every year for the rest of my life
89. Tell a stranger they’re beautiful
90. Cook for 40+ people
91. Make $10,000 extra in one year in addition to my teaching salary
92. Cook a Thanksgiving meal for my immediate and extended family
93. Take 10 rolls of film, don’t develop it and leave arrangements to have it developed after I die
94. Watch the sunrise from Mt. Rainier
95. Start quote book of things my students say
96. Write letter to someone that made an impact in my life
97. Speak on radio or television in an interview
98. Go to the graduation of my students that I taught my first year
99. Create photograph-based coffee-table book
100. Photograph each of these and see to it that I complete it
