When I was diagnosed with cancer, I started this list of things I want to do before I die.  It is, as one would expect, a work in progress.   Ann and I used to talk about this list extensively during our Friday visits to the chemo lounge.  We were out Wednesday night, and she urged me to post the list to the blog.  So here it is:

Buy a Mini Cooper

Run half-marathon

Oral argument(s) @ Bankruptcy Appellate Panel

Write memoir

See the aurora borealis

Have an orange cat as a pet

Visit Machu Picchu

See a solar eclipse

Learn to ice skate

Take a vacation alone

Go to Iceland

See the pyramids 

Antarctic cruise

Get breast cancer survivor tattoo

Race a car

Eat at one of Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants

Purchase a historic home

Smoke pot in Amsterdam

Swim in a hot spring

See Swan Lake

Run a race with Jax

Eat lobster in Maine

Sing karaoke

Take Jax to Disney

Watch the top 100 movies of all time (AFI)

Ride in a gondola in Venice

Own a Chanel bag

Have a psychic reading

Spend NYE in NYC

Go on a haunted tour

Vacation in an overwater bungalow in Tahiti

Buy myself an expensive piece of jewelry

Visit the Louvre

Take a painting class

Visit as many caves as possible

Read the 100 best novels (Modern Library)

Visit Spain

Visit Japan

Visit Ireland

Take piano lessons

Mediterranean Cruise