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I’m on a short vacation with my family (Doodah, David, and Beloved of Doodah’s) and a few nights ago after listening to Frank Sinatra croon “I Did It My Way” the conversation turned to regrets. Specifically, we started asking one another the following question: If we were to take the big dirt nap tomorrow, what would we regret not having done in our lives? (Yeah, I know. Morbid. But we’re mostly Irish so morbid sentimentality is sort of a genetic privledge.)

Of course, no one could limit it to one thing so in a fit of inspiration I declared it LIFE LIST night. I proposed we each write a list of 25 experiences IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER we would like to have before we deep six it (again. Irish. Many names for “death") So we did.

After half an hour some of us couldn’t come up with twenty-five, some of us came up with thirty. Interestingly, many of our answers were similar. Some were surprising. (Who woulda guessed Doodah wants to learn fly an airplane?) We enjoyed the exercise so much I’ve kept the lists with the plan that in five years’ time, High Fiving the Grim Reaper not withstanding, we’ll check our lists to see which ones we’ve achieved and then revamp them.

So how about you? Ever make a Life List? What was number one on your list?