• Writing + producing Rogue Wave audio story; Nov. 2017
• Official Wedding ceremony on Oregon Coast; June 2017
• Reporting for BBC (Dawson City); May 2017
• Reporting + Writing for BBC (Forget); Feb. 2017
• Leaving Los Angeles; Dec. 2016
• Getting married to Richard; Nov. 2016
• Reporting + Writing for BBC (Channel Islands); Apr. 2016
• Producing "Chelsea Does"; 2015
• Hiking Mt. Whitney; June 2014.
• Creating, Launching, Maintaining: ReCirculation Desk; May 2013.
• Planning, coordinating, executing Mom's 60th surprise birthday party; July 2012.
• Beginning and continuing Book Club; Oct. 2011 - present.
• Being published (again) at Adovcate.com; ...

• 44 - Herding Cats art show, dinner @ Pam's; Colorado trip to Ouray, B’Canyon of Gunnison, + Great Sand Dunes NPs.
• 43 - Wrist surgery/canceled NP trip; SnoQualmie cabin + Beyoncé treasure hunt with Sar + RL
• 42 - Park City, Utah Alpine Park with Richard; Great Basin NP w. Richard, Jessie, and Sarah
• 41 - Voyageurs NP w. Richard; backyard patio party with Seattle fam
• 40 - Covid immunity tests w. Richard then picnic with DTP fam at Greenlake; Lassen NP wknd with Jessie, Richard.
• 39 - TBD
• 38 - Breakfast w. Mom + Andre; dinner w. Amanda, Andi, Jen, Adam, Ame, Jessie, Lucy, Taya, Jeff, Jojo, Richard, Roxanne @ Palms; hiking wknd w. RL in North Cascades.
• 37 - Hiking in Mt. Rainier NP to Crystal ...

• ✔ Eat at Chez Panisse (February, '13 w. Richard!)
• ✔ Leave it all behind + try something new ('17-'18)
• ✔ Live in a city (away from So. Cal) for a year ('16-17)
• Work/live in a foreign country for one year.
• Work in a newsroom type environment.
• National park tour.
• 40 countries in 40 years (or 50/50).
• Visit all 7 continents.
• Attend all 4 Tennis Grand Slams (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, US Open).
• The Way of Saint James
• Pacific Crest Trail.
• John Muir Trail.
• Hike Mt. Fuji - have tea before summit
• Kayak the Baja, CA coastline.
• See sunrise or camp at Haleakala Crater, ...

Films to See

2025:

• The Apprentice
• Sing Sing
• Anora
• I’m Still Here
• The Center Will Not Hold
• Bram Stroker's Dracula (1992!)
• Nosferatu
• The Whale
• Emilia Perez

2024:

• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• Conclave
• Wicked: Part 1
• Queer
• Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
• Sister Act
• Heretic
• Monster: The Lyle and Eric Menendez Story...

Never Ending Reading List

Gay Authors

2025

• My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants they love, Jamaica Kincaid
• Ghost, Jason Reynolds
• The Empusium, Olga Tokarczuk
• Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
• Intermezzo, Sally Rooney
• Family Dancing, David Leavitt
• Didion & Babitz, Lili Anolik

2024

• Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay
• Arkansas, David Leavitt
• Orbital, Samantha Harvey
• Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst
• We Will Not Cancel Us, Adrienne Maree Brown
• Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar
• Migrations, Charlotte McConaghy

• Pele, soccer legend
• Barbara Walters
• Vivienne Westwood
• Pope Benedict XVI
• Frida (Gille + David's dog)
• Lizette's Grandfather
• Lesley Miller's Mom (high school)
• Paul Escarcega's Brother Ben (high school)
• Amber Mitchell's Dad
• Katey Denno's Dad

Ongoing list:

• ✔ Wonderland Trail
• ✔ Ozette Triangle, Olympic National Park
• ✔ Reflection Lake, Mt. Rainier NP
• PCT / John Muir Trail
• Wonder Lake at Mile 85, Denali NP
• Chilkoot Trail: Skagway, AK
• Stay in a lookout
• ✔ Camp at Staircase area in Olympic National Park; hike Wagonwheel Lake trail or Flapjack Lakes trail.
• Shi Shi Beach
• National Parks List

2025:

• Blewett Pass
  • (day hike: 1/26) w. Christopher: snowshoe
• Uluru Base hike, Uluru-Kata Tjuta NP
  • (sunrise hike: 1/2) w. RL

2024:

PNW + Canada:

• ✔ Walla Walla, WA
• Lummi Island
• San Juan Islands
  • Lopez Island
  • ✔ Kayak around the islands
• ✔ Copper Creek Inn, Ashford (Mt Rainier NP)
  • Kinda beat but good WiFi
• Alexander’s Lodge (Mt. Rainier)(haunted? lol)
• Firestone Inn and Lodge (near Winthrop)

CA:

• Big Sur
• Catalina Island
• ✔ Channel Islands National Park
• ✔ Death Valley National Park
• Devil's Postpile National Monument