Big Ideas

What it is the BIG IDEA?

These are things that I'd like to accomplish before I enter my coffin skidding in sideways, whooping, hollering, glass of wine in one hand, and a smirky grin on my face:

• Run a Half Marathon (13.1 miles)
• Moab Other Half - 2008 finished in 2:31:19
• St. George Half Marathon - 2009 finished in 2:31:44
• Ogden Half Marathon
• Run a Full Marathon (26.2 miles)
• St. George Marathon - 2009 finished in 5:22:23
• Ogden Marathon - 2010 couldn't run due to foot reconstruction
• 2011 Raised $1,000 for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society finished in 6:02:59
• Big Sur Marathon
• Yellowstone
• Track a Family of Wolves in Yellowstone
• Hike Every Trail 
•  2011
• Visit Old  Faithful in the Winter
• Week Long Backpack Trip
• Kayak Yellowstone Lake
• Summer Volunteer 
• Grand Canyon
• Hike the Grand Canyon - Finished 1997
• Raft through the Grand Canyon
• Adventure Racing
• The Grand Canyon Rim to Rim
• Run an Ultra Marathon
• 30 miles
• 50 miles
• 100 miles
• Dirty Dash  - Finished in 2010
• Hurt in the Dirt - Finished 2010
• Qualify for Pikes Peak Marathon
• Warrior Dash
• Xterra Trail Run
• Triathlon
• 100 mile Bike Ride for Charity
• Learn to rock climb
• Learn to white water kayak
• Hike Utah's popular mountain peaks
• Stay overnight in the wild by myself
• Raise an ecologically sensitive child
• Publish a book of poetry
• Open my own photography business
• Photograph Utah's Endangered Plant Species
• Volunteer with my dogs for the R.E.A.D. program - certified 2008
• Humanitarian Mission in Africa
• Become a Stewardship of Earth's less fortunate inhabitants 
• Learn to play the Cello
• Tour the US
• Visit Washington DC
• Visit Ground Zero - 1st visit 2002
• Visit Ground Zero's Museum
• Hawaii -
• Maui 2 week stay 
• Kauai
• The Big Island
• Ohau
• Tour the World
• Paris
• Ireland
• Caribbean
• London
• Participate in Carnival
• Cancun Mexico visted a week 2009
• Learn to paint with oils
• Be someone's eye candy
• Become a Teacher Naturalist
• Become a bird nerd
• identify birds flying overhead
• find a red tail nest in the foothills - photograph the babies
• photograph Burrowing Owls
• photograph Bald Eagles at Farmington Bay
• photograph baby Great Horned Owls
• photograph Great Horned Owls
• Actively communicate with elected decision makers and local leaders
• Rob Bishop, Mike Lee, Gov. Gary Herbet, Orin Hatch  Actively emailing and calling their offices.  
• Become a certified fitness instructor
• Have a positive relationship with food
• Swim with dolphins (hopefully wild)
• Skydive
• Accept healing of all types
• Acupuncture 2012
• Chiropractor  2011
• Align myself with the energy of the universe
• Chakra
• Intuition
• Reiki
• Native American
• Be able to be with just me