1. List five things you’d like to accomplish by the end of the year. Establish a better daily routine. Establish a daily exercise program. Write and send Christmas cards. Finish potty-training Hambet. Get pregnant.
2. List five people you’ve lost contact with that you’d like to hear from again. Only one: I’d like to talk again with my high school English teacher, Ms. Priscilla Rooth. Mostly to fall at her feet in homage.
3. List five things you’d like to learn how to do. Knit. Play the piano with more skill. Sew better. Write clever rhyming poetry. Dress better.
4. List five things you’d do if you won the lottery (no limit). Send big checks to my favorite charities, including anonymous gifts and donations to individuals and families I know who could use a little good news. Fix up and sell the Prussian Green Money Pit, get a nice old house, fix it up, and decorate it. Visit my mom more often and buy her new furniture.
5. List five things you do that help you relax. Surf the net. Make something. Read. Rent movies. Go someplace beautiful (basilica, garden, historic house, even a store with pretty things to look at.)