My Life List

Blogging from a teeny tiny apartment in Paris, three blocks from Notre Dame - fabulous vacation checked off my life list.

A group of women from the town I live in recently started a book club. The first book we read was The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I enjoyed the book, although admit to skimming parts so I could move on to another book, but there was one passage in there that stuck out and really hit me like a brick.

I can do anything I want, but I cannot do everything I want.

I think of this quite often, trying to determine what I want to do and ultimately, what I will do.

Here are a few things that I would love to do.

Urban farm
Restore a barn and create a rustic place for parties
Restore a barn and create an amazing retreat center

Have a wood-fired oven at restored barn and create a destination restaurant/bakery

Have a brewery/cidery at restored barn

Grow a tea garden

Raise chickens

Travel the world for an extended period

Volunteer on farms to gain experience

Bike across the USA

Bike across Europe

Go to culinary/pastry school

Work at a bakery

Own a bakery

Live in the country, in a cottage, on land with a lot of trees, a stream and hills

Become a minimalist (or close to)

Be happy

Bitchin' Kale Farm

Take more backpacking trips
Earn a Masters degree
Become a food historian
Study food cultures
Food writing program
Climb the non-profit ladder
Own a cabin in a remote location
Eat at Maxwell Street Market in Chicago
Become fluent in Spanish
Become a Master Gardener
Camp often
Take a food styling course
Work on photography skills, or lack there of
Work at a butcher shop (for real)
Learn how to make really delicious cheese

and the list goes on and on and on....