- Organize my house
- Visit Thailand
- Eat at the Waverly
- Take the train down the entire West Coast
- Celebrate my birthday in Paris
- Save 10k
- Take a writing retreat in New Orleans
- Take a class at Tisch
- Curate a new, organized wardrobe
- Make merch for Driftyland
- Take a falconry class
Turn Driftyland into a zine✅- Go to Greenland
- Publish Driftyology
- Sew my own patchwork quilt
- Learn how to ride a motorcycle/scooter
- Take an art history class again
- Do a 10-mile hike
Fly an airplane✅- Write and put on a play
- Spend a summer month at the family cabin
- Visit Taiwan
- Clock 100 hours of indoor rock climbing, yoga, and swimming for Project BB
- Buy a Bronco
- Revive Drifty House magic and have it as my second residence
Go to Japan ✅- Have a personal library
- The Yellow Bedroom
- Do five cold/polar plunges
- Lucy
- Grow a wildflower garden
- The Orange Room
- Collect 50 thrifted items (not clothing or books)
- Play/create five generations of one Sims family
- Publish a book of essays
- Grow my hair down to my waist
- Reduce my food waste and shop local
- Build an outdoor shower
- The Mint Room
- Have a “wedding” in Argentina
- Visit Blackberry Farm
- Take an illustration class and draw a children’s book
- See a show at Red Rocks
- Have a studio in my backyard
- See Ashley Monroe at The Bluebird Café
- Decorate my house(s) with at least 5 of my paintings
- Revive my acting career
- San Francisco/Berkeley
- Develop a consistent journaling practice
- Visit Corfu
- See The Nutcracker ballet again
- Go to Antarctica (sustainably)
- Take a country-wide tour of France
- Have a dutch door
- Write and publish my noir novel
- Go back to the secret spot
- Visit Hwuniki
- Renovate a property in another country
- Collect and read 100 thrifted books
- Create a plastic-free Ghibli-inspired kitchen with copper cookware
- Replace the siding on my Wilmington house
- Write an Icelandic “fishing” village zine
- Speak Ukrainian fluently
- Be a working anthropologist
- Visit 7 farm stays/eco-friendly hotels
- Visit Morocco
- Work for an aquarium
- Collect 50 bottles of perfume
- Visit 100 libraries and bookstores
- Stay at 7 Autograph hotels with Amber
- Print, frame, and sell 100 of my original photos
- Visit all 50 states
- Visit five deserts
- Get stories published in 5 major magazines
- Watch 100 great films
- Visit 5 animal sanctuaries
- Visit 10 locally owned hotels
- Visit 100 countries over my lifetime
- Write 100 letters
- Have a weekend writer’s retreat four times a year
- Visit 7 unique islands
- Refine my art collection
- Offer a Driftyland scholarship
- Collect 25 truly unique teacups
- “Win” Stardew Valley
- Visit a beach in 10 different countries
- Take a river cruise with my husband
- Attend an international film festival
- Collect 50 of my own Christmas ornaments
- Take five rail trips
- Have a pet bird
- Write a biographical story of an overlooked influential person
- Install a little Driftyland library
- Sleep in a lighthouse
- Taste 100 teas and coffee
- Go to Lisbon with my husband
- Finish painting and decorating my doors
- Show Pickles Junior Wilmington
- Reach $1,000 in Driftyland zine sales
- Meet Christina Ricci
Note: A few items on this list are intentionally vague….I have to maintain my mystery somehow. As any good flâneur knows, there are places and ideas that quietly call to us for reasons we don’t fully understand, and some of these entries are simply echoes of that pull.
Progress Tracker & List Key
- In Progress
- On Deck
- Lifetime Goal (started and/or no progress shared)
- Tracking Lifetime Progress
- Done