 Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.

 Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.

 Swim with a dolphin.

 Skydive.

 Have your portrait painted.

 Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.

 Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.

 Watch the launch of the space shuttle.

 Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.

 Be an extra in a film.

 Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.

 Make love on a forest floor.

 Make love on a train.

 Learn to rollerblade.

 Own a room with a view.

 Brew your own beer.

 Learn how to take a compliment.

 Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.

 Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month. (Does not waxing or getting your eyebrows done for 2 months count if you're a girl? I think so.)

 Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.

 Be a member of the audience in a TV show. (BBC Mastermind)

 Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.

 Send a message in a bottle.

 Ride a camel into the desert.

 Get to know your neighbors.

 Plant a tree.

 Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.

 Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.

 Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.

 Learn to ballroom dance properly.

 Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.

 Be the boss.

 Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.

 Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.

 Sit on a jury.

 Write the novel you know you have inside you.

 Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.

 Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).

 Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.

 Be someone's mentor.

 Shower in a waterfall.

 Ask for a raise.

 Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.

 Teach someone illiterate to read.

 Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.

 Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.

 Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.

 See a lunar eclipse.

 Spend New Year's in an exotic location.

 Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.

 Experience weightlessness.

 Sing a great song in front of an audience.

 Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.

 Drive across America from coast to coast.

 Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.

 Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.

 Write your will.

 Sleep under the stars.

 Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.

 Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!

 Go wild in Rio during Carnival.

 Spend a whole day reading a great novel.

 Forgive your parents.

 Learn to juggle with three balls.

 Drive the Autobahn.

 Find a job you love.

 Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.

 Overcome your fear of failure.

 Raft through the Grand Canyon.

 Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.

 Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.

 Grow a garden.

 Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.

 Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.

 Accept yourself for who you are.

 Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.

 Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

 Go up in a hot-air balloon.

 Attend one really huge rock concert.

 Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.

 Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.

 Give to a charity -- anonymously.

 Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.

 Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.

 Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.

 Fart in a crowded space.

 Make love on the kitchen floor.

 Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.

 Create your own web site. (I created an ex's - does that count?)

 Visit the Holy Land.

 Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.

 Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.

 Create your Family Tree.

 Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.

 Make a hole-in-one.

 Ski a double-black diamond run.

 Learn to bartend.

 Run a marathon.  (12 October 2008)

 Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.

 Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.