- write, illustrate & publish a children’s tide pool book
- take roadtrip with family across USA in Airstream trailer
- sleep in Airstream on the beach in Kennebunkport until police make us move.
- live in Santa Cruz
- speak Spanish fluently, possibly with Castillian tongue
- grow a big huge vegetable garden
- buy ranch or farmland in TX, build barn+studio+home
- apprentice & learn from a master photographer
- write regularly for a magazine
- do spot illustrations regularly for a magazine
- own sailboat in big port city to sneak away to on date nights with Damon
- live on (that) sailboat (in Santa Cruz, for sure, for starters)
- take (that) sailboat and the family from Houston to Yucatan to Carribean to Florida and back.
- learn to meditate every day
- ski black diamonds
- surf
- hang ten
- take surf tour road trip down Baja (with the family)
- camp at least 3x each year
- own horses
- own horses again (at #6 ranch)
- see Monarch migration in Santa Cruz
- trick out the treehouse
- make one investment all by myself
- keep writing one strong piece every day about living with boys
- learn to shortboard
- learn to skim
- write and illustrate a graphic novel
- take family on barge trip in Europe, hire nanny
- farm basil & lavender (small op)
- scuba dive in kelp forest
- record family album (play bass and sing, some percussion)
- take Ford to pyramids in Egypt
- take Ford to pyramids in Belize
- go to Cuba with Damon
- donate my art to texas Children’s Museum
- go to ACLfest every year
- publish a piece of fiction
- speak & understand basic Mandarin
- host annual Halloween party
- do portrait of everyone in this house and hang them up proudly
- swim in ocean at night with phosphorescent ctenophores
- take kids floundering at night with Dad & phosphorescent ctenophores
- hot springs with Damon and friends
- lemonade on porch swing, hot summer night without being harassed by mosquitoes
- open ocean sailing certified
- afternoon nap + overnight with kids in hayloft of #6 barn, horses below us in stalls
- raise a crow and let it go
- raise goats
- raise chickens again
- show & sell my artwork at an upscale gallery
- play tennis competitively with friends
- take family on counterclockwise Mediterranean sailing tour, homeschool, use buckets of sunscreen
- take kids to ACLfest, drop off at night with nanny or family
- hire voice coach
- get Ford into drama classes
- volcano/tide pool road trip through Pacific Northwest corridor
- fun annual christmas tradition: terribly alluring, so the boys always are lured back home for Christmas
- finish binding king quilt for our bed
- found an artist’s co-op in Austin



