Old/Boring/30 List

(Credit for the title goes to Caitlin M. – great idea!)

~ Tour Europe on a research trip

~ Work backstage at a theater

~ Watch a live Shakespeare production (For the record, it was ‘The Taming of the Shrew’)

~ Ride in a hot-air balloon

~ Learn shorthand

~ Train a seeing-eye dog

~ Sew a quilt by hand

~ Locate one of the missing original copies of the Declaration of Independence

~ Write a book and get it published

~ Find a long-lost relative

~ Work at a living history estate

~ Go storm chasing

~ Solve the Beale Papers cipher

~ Improve my handwriting (this is an on-going endeavor; I have started by journaling in cursive)

~ Read all of Agatha Christie’s novels

– Learn how to use a non-digital SLR camera