Inspired by Maggie Mason, I'm putting my (evolving) life list out there. I'll cross them off as I go. Starting with 50, and working my way up from there.

• Visit New York City for Christmas
• Attend Fallas in Valencia
• Publish a cook book
• Record my own songs
• Record some ukulele covers
• Learn to play the autoharp
• Cross the Nullabor by train
• Buy a holiday house
• Plant (and maintain) a vegie garden
• Go on a cruise
• Visit Melbourne with my daughter
• Publish my Grandfather's stories
• Take my husband to dinner at Tetsuya's
• Sit for a painted portrait
• Get a portrait painted of my children
• Buy something (anything) from an grown-up toy shop