<p>To be the first woman to play professional baseball. To be a sports broadcaster. To sing with the Supremes. All too impractical. So, I went to law school. Yawn.</p>
<p>To write a best-selling novel.</p>
<p>I can’t control the “best-selling” part, but I am writing a novel now!</p>
<p>I always wanted to be on Johnny Carson. </p>
<p>David Letterman and Jay Leno aren’t the same thing.</p>
<p>How could I have forgotten: I had wanted to be Miss America. I had thought that real life was like, “The Ugly Duckling.”</p>
<p>When I was 10, I wanted to go work w/Mother Theresa in Calcutta, India.</p>
<p>I’d still like to work at eradicating child sex trafficking throughout the world.</p>
<p>And, reform the US criminal justic system into something effective and humane, not premised on the (colonial-Quaker) philosophy of isolation–>reflection–>personal reform.</p>
<p>Oh, and reform the US foster care system.</p>
<p>My list is way less glamorous than most, lol.</p>
<p>Write that Great American Novel, unless one of you beats me to it.</p>
<p>I wanted to be a Saiyan! (Super saiyan, if possible) And I wanted to meet Goku and train with him! yea, I’m crazy about DB,DBZ, and DBGT lol</p>
<p>Play the piano solo in Eric Clapton’s ‘Leila.’ </p>
<p>See, the concert hall would go dark, and a spotlight would hit the piano and me at it. The piano would then zooooom out of the stage and right above the crowd. I’d play the solo with all the passion and skill of a rock 'n roll virtuoso. Eric would come with his guitar and join in at the appropriate moment, the two of us sending the crowd into a frezy. </p>
<p>That’s my one and only real fantasy. BTW, of course I don’t play the piano. Am somewhat tone deaf, in fact ;)</p>
<p>^^^ S2 just came back from camp with a newfound appreciation for Eric Clapton. All those years of me loving him didn’t make a dent, but some kid at camp likes him and now he’s the rage!</p>
<p>You have a cool kid, Youdontsay.</p>
<p>I want to be an astronaut. I didn’t want to do this when I was younger - I wanted to work in Antarctica then – I don’t know what I was thinking, since I hate cold weather! But now I think it would be cool to go into space, see the earth from orbit, and visit the space station or even Mars. Since I am too old to be an astronaut, I am putting my name in to be the first old lady in space, perhaps in 30 years or so. :)</p>
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<p>If I had an extra 200K laying around I would do this in a heartbeat. I need to add this to my 'bucket list"</p>
<p>I wanted to be a ballerina first, then a cowgirl. I wanted to breed racehorses and sell them at Keeneland…twenty five years later, I did. I still want to breed and sell a Kentucky Derby winner.</p>
<p>I am also interested in foster children. Being a CASA volunteer seems more practical.</p>
<p>I’d rather have the three million that it takes to live on the space station with the Russians for two weeks. :)</p>
<p>cottonwood513–I looked into being a CASA volunteer too! Didn’t do it because of time constraints, but I’m still on their email list and may consider it in the future.</p>
<p>Foster parenting is daunting (I looked into that also) because (in our state, at least) every adult in the home has to take 18 hours of parenting classes.</p>
<p>Jolynne,</p>
<pre><code> I could get through the eighteen hours of parenting classes. It’s the 24/7 part that I may not be up to… sapling was easy to raise, foster kids may find all the chinks in my parenting amoure.
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<p>cottonwood513—I could do the 18 hours too–it was the requirement that my husband (who works long hours and is not so enamoured of the foster idea) would have to attend which was the stickler.</p>
<p>Re: the 24/7. I’ve done some family law briefs and learned that there is a need for ‘emergency’ foster care–someone who will take a baby or young child in crisis for just a few days or weeks. The Division of Children and Youth in my state is completely overwhelmed and they (it seemed to me) desparately need short-term, temporary placements. That’s the kind of thing I thought I’d start with—not a long commitment. I was also going to look into babies/young children because with a 6 year old daughter of my own, I didn’t want to risk an older, troubled child in the house (as sad as that is…).</p>
<p>In high school, I wanted to be a Senator. Didn’t happen.</p>
<p>In graduate school, my dream was to be the President of the World Bank. Didn’t happen.</p>
<p>In graduate school, I also wanted to be an advisor to countries in important matters (finance, war and peace, etc.). Remarkably, this has happened, though perhaps not as frequently as I would like, but among other things, I advised the President of one country, helped with a renegotiation of very important financial contracts for another country, and played a role in successful efforts to settle a long-standing civil war in third country.</p>
<p>Cool, shawbridge!</p>
<p>i wanted to be king of the world…not working out well yet.</p>