- Almost died and lived to tell about it.
- Ate Chinese in Chinatown, Brazilian in Little Brazil,
Korean in Koreatown, and Italian in Little Italy.
- Ate Red Beans and Dirty Rice in the French Quarter of
New Orleans.
- Been beaten with branches inside a clay oven pawned off
as a "spa" in Mexico.
- Broke a few laws.
- Danced, and danced, and danced.
- Drank Absinthe and ate pastries from a quaint bakery in
Paris.
- Drank Bailey's in Ireland (not a fan
of Guinness).
- Drove from Oklahoma to Miami and Philadelphia to
Atlanta.
- Drove on the wrong (left) side of the road, on the winding paths around cliffs in Jamaica.
- Experienced the birth of the brightest little light in
the universe, my daughter Samarah.
- Fallen asleep on the NYC Subway and woken up at JFK
Airport....twice.
- Followed a neighborhood dogs as he played on
the cliffs of the Irish fishing village Howth.
- Gone to a club by myself and made friends with complete
strangers.
- Gone to gay clubs in DC and danced with some of the
cutest boys I've ever seen.
- Gotten completely paranoid and spent $50 on a cab back
to my hotel in Amsterdam.
- Gotten pushed down the stairs by a bouncer in Florence.
- Had a crazy Australian stalker follow me around Berlin.
- Had a guy try to step on my foot as a way to pick me up
in a London club.
- Had an 80 year old Mexican cab driver propose to me.
- Had an altercation with a gondolier over the
price of a boat ride in Venice.
- Had men in Italy give me cat calls.
- Laid on white beaches.
- Lived in a hipster neighborhood before it was hip.
- Lived in another country (England and Jamaica).
- Loved, and lost, many.
- Managed to get a Master's degree without buying books
for my classes.
- Met a US State Senator.
- Overdosed on pot brownies in Jamaica and totally
freaked out
- Protested war and discrimination.
- Salsa danced in Miami while drinking an $18 drink.
- Seen my car tire roll down the street outside of my
college after driving home in a car where frost was collecting on the
inside of the windshield and a persistent buzzing would not die.
- Seen some of the most amazing bands perform (Smashing
Pumpkins, Garbage, Queens of the Stoneage etc.)
- Seen the Royal Jewels.
- Seen the Sistine Chapel, Rocky Mountains, David,
Tower of London, Eiffel Tower, Colosseum, Sagrada Familia, Vatican, Empire
State Building, Berlin Wall, Versailles, United Nations, and more I
can't remember.
- Seen the words "Arbeit Mach Frei" up close
and personal at a concentration camp outside of Berlin.
- Seen wild horses run on the beach.
- Shared so many laughs with people who I can honestly
say I know their soul.
- Slept in a castle in Wales.
- Spotted Denis Leary, Jody Foster, Parker Posey, Jimmy
Fallon, Tim Robbins, Jude Law, and Adrienne Grenier in NYC.
- Swam with dolphins and rode a horse on the beach in
Jamaica.
- Taken a Greyhound across country.
- Toured Bob Marley's grave site with a Rastafarian who
went to elementary school with him.
- Tried to kiss the lead singer of Blink 182.
- Visited some of the greatest museums in the world
(Louvre, England's National Gallery, etc.) and have been inches away from
the works of DaVinci, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Dali, and many more.
- Went to a party with a neighborhood drug dealer to guarantee my safety in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
- Went zip-lining.
- Woken up somewhere and not known how I got there...far more
than once.
- Written two theses.
And that's just the first 28 years...
