- 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.
- speak Spanish …fluently
- build the perfect cargo bike
- grow a big huge vegetable garden
- buy ranch or farmland in TX, build barn+studio+home
- set up a darkroom
- 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
- meditate daily
- 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
- 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 (on our own)
- 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
- take family on counterclockwise Mediterranean sailing tour, homeschool, use buckets of sunscreen
- take kids to ACLfest, drop off at night with nanny or family
- 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
been good about this!
wanna do it again though
and I dare say it rocks
HI Steph,
We met you at Bumpass Hell. Your site is great. WE would love to meet up with you all sometime. Maybe in SF at the Academy of Sciences in GGP.
Melissa, Jeff, Avery and Lukas Plotts
My cell #415-377-7946 or h #707-935-7857