Ideals...

Updated 12/1/2014

Praying:  for my wife and two sons, for friends in needs, and to the Holy Spirit, for myself
Thinking: about why some people act and talk the way they do, and why some people are so difficult
Working on: listening skills

People keep mentioning their bucket list, so I dashed off my own little bucket list:

- write a novel
-take a train ride across a continent--either Canada or USA.
-live in Alaska for a year or two
-buy fly fishing gear and learn to fly fish.
-season tickets to the New York Knicks
-buy another VW Beetle.  Buy an Audi, an Alpha Romeo, a Checker cab
-go to the NY Metropolitan opera
-play squash
-visit the area in China where my wife's parents are from
-visit India, Cambodia, Spain,and few other countries
-go to the theater on a regular basis
-stay at the Mt. Washington Hotel in NH in winter. Climb Mt. Washington in winter and spring.
-do some recreational boating with a fast boat
-attend a world boxing championship match
-read all the books I'd like to read
-travel throughout the U.S., staying at whatever place I like,for
as long as I like
-learn to dance
- live in Berlin for a year or two
-retire
-a bunch of things I've forgotten