Get the passport! I will find a new job overseas, and you can come and visit me, and we will go on some local cooking adventure.

I have twice attempted to drive Sky Line Drive/the Blue Ridge Parkway in late October only to go too late and miss almost all of the leaves. Surely there are websites that will make it possible for this to be avoided.

An excellent set of goals if ever I saw one :)

1) Practice yoga regularly, daily whenever possible.

2) Don’t be discouraged when it takes a while to master new yoga poses. Change takes time!

3) Re-kindle my love affair with my road bike.

4) Learn to rock-climb.

5) Reinstate game nights, even if they’re only once a month.

6) Write, write, write, write, write. Journal entries, letters, blog posts, poems, stories – it doesn’t matter what and it doesn’t matter if I am the only person who ever sees my writing.

7) Learn new things. Take a class at a community college, take a course online, listen to iTunes U lectures, or watch TED talks. Absorb.

8) Visit far away friends and family. Spend real time with them and, in the interim, communicate with them as often as possible.

9) Live on budget — for real this time.

10) Worry less about not being “good enough” and just be happy to be myself, just as I am.