long-term

  • yellowstone
  • zion national park
  • monarch butterfly migration map
  • yosemite
  • sea turtles hatching
  • hot air balloon ride

short-term

  • indiana dunes
  • gary, indiana (mj's house)
  • milwaukee
  • madison
dec 27 2012 ∞
dec 25 2014 +
  • visit kathy kelly and creative voices for nonviolence
  • dance (in a class and/or collective, consistently, continuously)
    • contact improv at links hall!
    • use my living social dance class coupons!
    • www zumba or zumba with liz at cheetah's
  • volunteer in a dialogue/conflict resolution-related organization (ccr)
  • network (?)
    • jackie kaplan!
  • study for the gre
  • play a sport (soccer, as america scores! coach or through america scores staff team)
    • meetup with andrea and/or ben
  • go camping
may 18 2011 ∞
dec 25 2014 +
  • tamara drewe
  • nice boy johnny
  • the four-faced liar
  • happythankyoumoreplease
  • scotland, pa
  • i'm no angel
  • butterfield8
  • the help
  • alice in wonderland
  • capitalism: a love story
  • helvetica
  • justin beiber: never say never (that's right, it's true)
  • red riding hood
  • snow flower and the secret fan
  • the tree of life
  • annie hall
  • beginners
  • tomboy
  • the purity myth
  • wild
feb 2 2011 ∞
dec 25 2014 +
  • wilco
  • neil young
  • crosby, stills, nash, and young
  • will's mixes
  • john butler trio
  • ani difranco
  • james taylor
  • joni mitchell
  • beirut
  • cocteau twins
jan 31 2011 ∞
jun 22 2011 +
  • felicity
  • sex and the city
  • arrested development
  • friday night lights
  • modern family
  • parks and recreation
  • gilmore girls
  • clarissa explains it all
  • the good wife
  • the office
  • community
  • bob's burgers
  • master chef junior
jan 16 2011 ∞
dec 25 2014 +
  • positive
    • travel to a new part of chicago each week (or twice a month, if each week seems impractical)
    • read more books
    • attend a "meet up" group
    • start playing soccer
    • go to dance classes
    • draw for fun/in free time
    • witness one flash mob
    • attend a fertility awareness class
    • attend a jewish renewal service
    • continue my epistolary relationships
    • work out...zumba?!
    • call mimi each week
    • call at least two non-chicago friends each month
    • make time for journaling/writing reflectively
    • go to karaoke!
jan 16 2011 ∞
apr 18 2012 +
  • rice chex
  • life
  • frosted mini wheats
  • crispex
  • frosted cheerios
  • berry kix
  • cap'n crunch
  • french toast crunch
  • honey bunches of oats
  • special k protein
  • total
jun 7 2010 ∞
jun 22 2011 +
  • learn how to garden
  • live near water
  • own a dog (boston terrier? cavalier king charles?)
  • be trained as a dialogue facilitator
  • live in an intentional community
  • learn how to play guitar
  • take another drawing class
  • learn italian
  • make a killer scrapbook
  • maintain an epistolary relationship
  • grow lupines
  • learn how to sail
  • study french feminism in french
  • run a half-marathon
  • work at an independent bookstore
  • live abraod
  • keep a journal
  • visit friends
  • make a quilt
  • study more philosophy
jun 6 2010 ∞
dec 25 2014 +
  • make mimi's 85th birthday book
    • contact friends and family
    • get pictures
    • use living social/coupon
  • go home to interview mimi
  • coordinate trip to ireland/england with mom
  • go home to interview mom
  • apply to graduate schools
dec 25 2014 ∞
dec 25 2014 +
  • songs that make me happy
  • color combinations
  • core feminist values of mine
  • smells/scents
  • favorite tv shows
    • felicity, 30 rock, daria, my so-called life,
  • favorite books
  • famous people i wanted to be
    • winona ryder, chrisitna ricci,
  • favorite movies/types of movies
    • drop dead gorgeous, momento, weekend,
  • favorite stumbleupon finds
  • bucket list?
  • ideal careers
  • art/dance therapist,
  • travel destinations
  • favorite literary characters
oct 29 2011 ∞
dec 27 2012 +
  • "little secrets" by passion pit
  • "five years time" by noah and the whale
  • "she's electic" by oasis
  • "bulletproof" by la roux
  • "baby" by justin beiber
  • "shake it off" by taylor swift
oct 29 2011 ∞
dec 25 2014 +
  • 6.21.11
    • beautiful kansas city sky
    • finished "sula" and started "the help"
    • mimi's fried chicken!
    • started a blog...well, designed a blog
    • thoughts about chicago me vs. kansas city me
jun 22 2011 ∞
oct 29 2011 +
  • randolph street market
  • green city market (saturdays!?)
  • millenium park music mondays
  • shedd aquarium
  • field museum
  • that island from the world's fair
  • architectural artifacts
  • rogers park community space
  • logan square!?
jun 22 2011 ∞
dec 10 2014 +
  • school
    • compile a list of potential graduate schools/programs for the future
    • actually call the places i'm interested in applying to
    • apply to rva (july 11)
    • apply to ccr (july)
    • apply to jewish funds for justice (wendy)
  • work
    • talk to cwhc about job possibilities for next year
    • find babysitting jobs
      • call rachel h.
      • ask carrie for recommendations
      • lela's recommendations
  • everything else
feb 3 2011 ∞
jun 22 2011 +
  • finished:
    • the girl with the dragon tattoo
    • sula
    • the help
  • in process:
    • the girl who played with fire
    • the cookbook collector
    • the history of love
  • to read:
    • deborah, golda, and me
    • feminisms
    • kitchen table wisdom
    • purple hibiscus
    • how jews became white folk
    • from hilary's class
      • the house of mirth
      • voyage in the dark
jan 31 2011 ∞
dec 27 2012 +
  • people love you. let them love you. (ari w)
jan 31 2011 ∞
dec 10 2014 +
  • "everytime a couple gets married, two single people die." -parks and recreation
  • "help is here. prepare for flight." -birthday night song at lincoln hall
  • "the thing about youth culture is i don't really understand it." -parks and recreation
  • "once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering." -nicole krauss, the history of love
  • "one of my new years resolutions is to say yes. yes to love. yes to life. yes to staying in more. -30 rock
  • "it takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence" -alexis jennings
  • "the summer came. a summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. heavy sunflowers weeping over fences, iris curling and..._sula_
jan 16 2011 ∞
jun 22 2011 +
  • the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay
  • a room with a view
  • catcher in the rye
  • lolita
  • wuthering heights
  • anne of green gables
  • sense and sensibility
  • anthem
  • the age of innocence
  • for whom the bell tolls
  • war and peace
  • madame bovary
  • a portrait of the artist as a young man
  • the scarlet letter
  • tess of the d'urbervilles
  • walden
jun 7 2010 ∞
jun 22 2011 +
  • palestine
    • olive harvest (october of 2011?)
    • nonviolence tour
  • greece
  • egypt
    • pyramids
  • italy
    • tuscany
    • rome (again)
  • england
    • jane austen tour
    • shakespeare tour
jun 6 2010 ∞
dec 10 2014 +
  • inside llewyn davis soundtrack
  • fleetwood mac by fleetwood mac
  • blood, sweat, and tears- dad's cd
  • john mayer
  • on and on by jack johnson
dec 25 2014 ∞
dec 25 2014 +
  • what do you remember about your mother? father? step-mother? siblings? family?
  • where are all the places you lived growing up?
  • categories: family, moving, marriage, tennis, friends, feminism, smoking, food/cooking, motherhood, dating, world war II, vietnam war, segregation and integration, college: art, television and movies, technology,
jan 26 2012 ∞
jan 26 2012 +
  • family
    • picture of mom and dad for their anniversary
    • money for 30th anniversary trip for/with mom and dad (summer 2014)
    • card for father's day (late, late, late)
    • write-up of mimi's stories
    • something for scottie's birthday (re: music? songbook?)
jun 22 2011 ∞
oct 29 2011 +
  • joni (joni mitchell)
  • lena ("sisterhood of the traveling pants")
  • lily
  • penny (the beatles)
  • river (gender-neutral)
  • eva
  • elle
  • jack (gender-neutral)
  • ryan (gender-neutral)
  • lux ("the virgin suicides")
  • ophelia (william shakespeare)
  • amelia
  • mae (mimi)
  • madeline (mimi)
  • sula (sula by toni morrison)
  • madeline mae (mimi)
  • lovey (mimi)
feb 2 2011 ∞
apr 18 2012 +
  • passion pit
  • eddie vedder
  • wilco
  • neil young
  • cocteau twins
  • the gossip
  • edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros
  • oh darling
  • john butler trio
  • cut copy
jan 31 2011 ∞
jul 5 2011 +
  • zach gilford (friday night lights)
  • kuno becker (sex and breakfast)
  • ryan gosling (blue valentine)
  • taylor kitsch (friday night lights)
  • matt czuchry (the good wife)
  • adam scott (party down)
  • matthew goode (imagine me and you)
  • diego luna (dirty dancing: havana nights)
  • emile hirsch (lords of dogtown)
  • nicholas hoult (skins)
  • joseph dempsie (skins)
  • matt damon (good will hunting)
  • leonardo dicaprio (romeo + juliet)
jan 16 2011 ∞
jun 22 2011 +
  • jonah house teachings
  • quotes from goucher courses
  • clt teachings/notes
jun 7 2010 ∞
jun 22 2011 +
  • general
    • utne
    • the week
    • newsweek
  • gender studies
    • bitch
    • hypatia
    • lilith
    • bust
    • meridians
    • journal of the history of sexuality
    • differences
  • judaism
    • heeb
    • bridges (+ feminism)
    • nashim (+ feminism)
jun 7 2010 ∞
jun 22 2011 +