Soak in the hot springs at Geysir, Iceland

Find the high school my grandmother attended in Tallin, Estonia in the early 1900s

See the little bronzes at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg

Attend White Sox spring training camp

Learn to sleep without pills

Make peace with my sister

Write and publish memoir about living in Saudi Arabia

Appear on NPR to talk about my books

Learn Latin

Find God

Train an old dog to do new tricks

Revisit Helsinki, Berlin, and Maine

Do a head stand

Spend a year teaching English (language, literature, creative writing) in Lithuania

Help end world hunger

Buy a little red sports car and drive it very fast down a country road at night

Work as private English tutor with needy White Sox players from Venezuela, Cuba, etc. etc.

Write a memoir about love and Scrabble titled Love and Scrabble

Get above 1500 in tournament Scrabble

Visit South Africa with Dagni

Find recipe for my mother’s cold blueberry soup

Throw a cold blueberry soup party

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