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Bucket List – 100 places I want to see

July 31, 2016 by Margie Clayman 2 Comments

I’ve been thinking for quite some time that there are just SO many places I want to see for myself, I can’t even think of an organized way in which to attack my wish list. Being a Virgo, I am left with the option of making a list and crossing things off. Maybe if you’ve been to some of these places you could offer me tips, or maybe this will inspire you to make your own list, which could be fun. I’m all about cross-referencing ๐Ÿ™‚ Who knows, maybe we’ll even end up in a tour group together! Anyway, in no particular order:

  1. The Shiloh battlefield
  2. Atlanta – in general
  3. New Orleans, especially the Garden District
  4. Venice
  5. Savannah, Georgia
  6. Rome
  7. Paris
  8. Versailles
  9. Hampton Court in England
  10. Mark Twain’s House in Connecticut
  11. Gettysburg – I’ve been there before but the trip was short and marred by car problems
  12. Portland
  13. Seattle
  14. Salem, Massachusetts
  15. The Grand Canyon
  16. The Black Hills
  17. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s house in DeSmet, South Dakota
  18. Charleston, South Carolina
  19. Dublin
  20. Belfast
  21. Glasgow
  22. San Diego Comic Con, especially if Benedict Cumberbatch is gonna be there again
  23. New York City. I know, it’s crazy. I’ve never been there.
  24. Miami – my cousin lives there ๐Ÿ™‚
  25. The White House – I’ve seen it from a distance but never got a tour
  26. New Salem, Illinois, where Lincoln “grew up”
  27. Vicksburg
  28. Santa Fe, New Mexico
  29. Albequerque, New Mexico (Maybe I’ll run into Saul Goodman)
  30. Alaska in general
  31. Puerto Rico to take up my friend Raรบl’s invitation
  32. Harper’s Ferry
  33. Arlington Mansion (I should retour the cemetery as well. I was a kid the last time I was there)
  34. Andersonville Prison
  35. the James A. Garfield home
  36. Vienna (especially where Mozart lived)
  37. Van Gogh’s home (any of them)
  38. A Broadway play
  39. Stratford on Avon
  40. Hadrian’s Wall
  41. The Great Wall of China
  42. The Holocaust Museum
  43. Monticello
  44. Independence Hall (and Philly in general)
  45. Edison’s lab in New Jersey
  46. Where Emily Dickinson lived, if any of that is still around
  47. Memphis, Tennessee
  48. The Alamo
  49. Mexico City
  50. the hobbit village in New Zealand (amongst other sites)
  51. Sydney, Australia
  52. Ghana, to see my friends the Federwitz family
  53. Montreal
  54. The Galapagos Islands
  55. The Great Barrier Reef (while it still exists)
  56. The Charleston Tea Plantation (I love their tea)
  57. Yorkshire
  58. Cardiff, Wales so I can look for Doctor Who
  59. Barcelona
  60. Madrid
  61. Seville
  62. Salamanca
  63. The Rock of Gibraltar
  64. Morocco
  65. Cairo
  66. The Great Pyramid
  67. Athens and the Acropolis
  68. Buenos Aires
  69. Guatemala to visit my friend Nic Wirtz (boy would that shock him) ๐Ÿ™‚
  70. SXSW – I would like to go some time. Just because.
  71. Los Angeles – I feel like I should see it. Ya know?
  72. Vancouver
  73. Yellowstone
  74. Mount Rushmore
  75. Ocean City, New Jersey – I want to see the hubub all of my friends are making about this place!
  76. Baltimore – I was only a kid when I was there and it was a very brief stay
  77. Tokyo – although I would want ย a very experienced tour guide who could deal with my crowd aversion ๐Ÿ™‚
  78. Jerusalem (if peace ever gets there)
  79. Amsterdam
  80. Odessa, Russia – ancestral home for at least part of my family
  81. the old Czarist palace, or whatever is left of those places
  82. Helsinki
  83. Zurich
  84. Ground Zero – I am not sure I will ever be able to gather up the strength to do this, but I feel I should
  85. Berlin
  86. Bombay
  87. Vatican City
  88. Nepal
  89. Lisbon
  90. Boulder, Colorado (and a trip to see the Vickery family)
  91. Kauai
  92. Costa Rica
  93. ย Moscow
  94. the fjords of Norway
  95. Copenhagen
  96. Florence
  97. the painted caves – wherever those are in France
  98. the Anasazi ruins out west
  99. Old Faithful
  100. Switzerland, where my great grandfather came from

Boy, that 100 goes fast. I could go on forever ๐Ÿ™‚

Now it’s your turn.

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Letter, July 21, 2016

July 21, 2016 by Margie Clayman 1 Comment

Dear you,

I hope you’re feeling better today. I am feeling nostalgic this week. On Monday, the sky was that perfect summer blue and it was filled with big July puffy clouds. The locusts were singing, the trees are at the height of their greenness, and I was transported immediately back to my childhood and summer vacation. I wasted so much of my summer vacations, spending hours upon hours inside watching VH1 and MTV, which actually showed music videos at the time. That’s how old I am.

Of course, it’s hard to appreciate a vacation after it has been going for a couple of months, I suppose. Maybe you need the contrast between a hustle and bustle day versus one where the porch is the epicenter of your plan. Maybe we should go to school all year round and get summer vacation as adults. But then how would that work for teachers? Somebody figure this out for me.

I have not touched on the news of the day, which is that a Black care giver was shot in North Miami while he was lying on the ground with his hands up. The police officer was asked why he shot this man, who was completely unarmed, and his response was, “I don’t know.” I think it would be better to say, “I have racist programming in my head that I can’t overcome, and when I see a Black man my first instinct is to shoot.” Saying “I don’t know” makes it seem like you decided to destroy an ant hill or something. “I don’t know. I didn’t have anything else to do.”

It will be interesting to see how this one gets turned around. “By lying down I assumed he was taking an aggressive position.” Maybe.

Anyway, enough of that.

I hope you’re well. Let me know what you’re up to. Talk later.

~Margie

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A Special #Tweetdiner to support one of our own

July 17, 2016 by Margie Clayman 1 Comment

Getitng his Fierce Mojo back!
Getitng his Fierce Mojo back!

The Twitter chat I co-founded called #Tweetdiner has never been quite like other chats. First of all, for some reason, most chats don’t incorporate digital food fights. Clearly they are the weird ones. #Tweetdiner never really had any particular topic, except on rare occasions. Rather, the chat has mostly been about friends getting together and chatting conversationally in real time. Last year we got together to remember our friend, Claudia Jackson, who passed away quite unexpectedly. This month, July 28th to be precise, I’d like to host a #Tweetdiner to help out our long-time diner family member, James Fierce.

The deal is this. James has been having a heckuva time over the last few years, but he refuses to be defeated. He wants to start his own importing and consulting business, but he needs a little bit of a boost to get that going. If you know James you’ve probably been supported by him in one way or another, so you know that he certainly merits a little help. James has started a GoFundMe campaign that explains all of the obstacles he has had to deal with along with where he is hoping to go next.

The goal of our chat will be two-fold. Well, actually three-fold. First, it’ll be a reunion, which is always fun. Second, we will strive to get James up and over his campaign goal over the course of the chat. And finally, per James’ request (and this shows how awesome he is) we’ll be talking about how men are impacted by depression and chronic illness. Men often feel pressure to stay quiet about these things, leaving them to either despair on their own or having no option but to pull their own selves up by the bootstraps.

The chat will run from 8-9 PM ET on Thursday, July 28th.

Spread the word, and I hope to see you there!

Filed Under: Musings

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