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find out why, and explain, why, when I was in Lousiana working this past fall and winter....I lost weight and got more fit... 2007 list all

• 1960
• 1970
• 1980
• 1990
• 2000

Looking Forward

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  discover why helping others really does boost one

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  conveying the message that people

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  It wouldn

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  Find out why, if 98% of the brain really isn

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  Find out the secrets of an easy-to-use website, and be able to fix hard-to-use websites

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  to be fluent in SOMETHING!

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  to get rid of all paper clutter in my surroundings, find a method to dispose of easily

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  letting younger people know, that finally developing a junk drawer (I didn

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  put down anyone who says...use anything you find lying around the house......for a craft project

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  envision what the baby-boomers will see as

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  find out if there is one square inch literally, that hasn

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  Discover how to think like a computer when I need/want to

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  conflate need and want

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  see if the gap between the haves and the have nots is widening, and if so, what can be done about it

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  keep laughing at myself/ourselves, i.e., the $40.00 tomato...as a blow for self-sufficiency in the home-grown garden

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  How about leaving some kind of LEGACY?

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  How about reaching the mentoring stage of development (cue in on this, psychology majors)

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  get a kick out of how being a hedonist as a teenager wasn

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  find out what people mean by saying, if I knew then what I know now.....

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  I have no clue what the above is supposed to mean...I don

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  feel as beautiful as some older women look

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  talk to some women

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  contradict every writer who says that "this was, of course, very unusual at the time for a woman." Hey, those people

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  Find out what ever happened to Kathy Whitmire and those ties. (see former Major of Houston, dress for success, etc.

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  find out how many young women are taking their husband

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  Find out why some proto-feminists thought that keeping their (given) last name was a hot ticket....it was just their father

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  how many hyphenated names can one have? Find out how the English manage it....too complicated to find out how the Russians...

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  Apologize to all the people in the doctor

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  Find out HOW TO HAVE ENOUGH money, but not worry about it and have to manage it so much

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  See if I could have a scientific breakthrough at an advanted age, or is it neurally impossible

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  Find someone who would appreciate my thoughts- oh, I already have that, find more people who would appreciate my thoughts

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  promote one of my friends as one of the funniest people alive

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  believe that 50 really is the old 30

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  Find out if existentialism- we make our own meaning- will be the credo, the article of faith of the new retired? the new non...

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  Find out if more night-owls are beach-lovers than mountain-lovers, and if most mountain-lovers are early risers? Does it matter?

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  Find out why sunsets are sad - though often beautiful

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  Find a more comfortable way for olders to go camping

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  Provide more comfort for older people in every activity

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  Really promote that most people after a certain age really do learn differently, but this doesn

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  See how long it would take to prepare delicious, fresh meals...without having to do it myself! the tyranny of the stomach!

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  Really understand anyone who thinks that they have

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  Find out what joy people really do get from pets

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  Be able to have a pet without having allergies (that is, to dogs....maybe, but prob. not, cats)

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  Re-read Alvin Tofler

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  Find a new outlet for my creativity (long-stifled)

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  Sail away from the coast and not see land- cross the ocean

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  meet P.G. Wodehouse (or his spirit)

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  go back to New Orleans

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  go back to Mt. Rainer

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  find out more about relatives I never knew, like my grandparents, some cousins uncles and aunts who pre-deceased me and my sibs

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  no one can grant this goal- find out about the afterlife, if any...and what it feels like to die (but to come back, prob.)

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  build a library room at the top of the house- it will have a view, the house is too small to fit the books that multiply

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  Re-decorate and become an interior designer, and stop watching, and not doing HGTV !!!

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  paint a masterpiece

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  compose a masterpiece

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  write a great poem

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  write a book interviewing the Parents of babyboomers, what their expectations were, and how that differed from that of the...

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  collect interviews for the above

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  interest a publisher in the above

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  interview children of the baby boomers who have now become parents (or who haven

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  conceive a new idea in philosphy

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  write up the above

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  create, or find, my best job

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  no more self-improvement

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  adda chapter to the book re: parents of the baby-boomers....what happened to their kids in the late 1950s, subtitled...why...

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  find the perfect rhythm to the day

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  on a material level, what would it be like to have a swimming pool (endless waves) in my basement

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  on a health level, how to exercise in everyday life, so don

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  short-term goal: copy-edit, maybe creative copy, long-term goal...develop books with new ideas

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  invent ways for older people to use internet WITHOUT hurting their hands from repetitive motion

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  seek and find inventor for the above

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  help the avove invention WORK and get into circulation

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  find out why people value speed over quality

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  find out why our generation blames our parents....did previous generations spend time on this other than only early in their...

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  refind my excitement at philosophy lectures (I know this sounds boring, but it was the most exciting thing to debate ideas)....

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  see if anyone else likes the line, "some people say the glass is half full or half empty, and by this one knows if someone...

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  see how other people really do live

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  find out if there is another reason to live in our times besides better medical care....

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  find the author of What Color is Your Parachute and pound some sense into his intellect !!!

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  find out if anyone really experiences childbirth as a really intense feeling, but not pain....

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  See if Norman Mailer was right in that bloodshed is good for every generation...that is, each new generation needs it...

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  find out why some women my age who became nurses were sometime bullys as youngsters....not quite Nurse Ratchet (sp?) but close

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  find out how many people really believe in God

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  find out why it seems, only people with money say it is not important...

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  how to reconcile my victorian, puritan, irish (e-gads!) background with actually making a way in the world

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  act without stage fright

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  fulfill my potential- by getting a graft of part of someone else

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  repair two bits of damage I have done to others- reconcile with one, undo the memory of the other in the other person

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  find a way to tell those younger that sometimes, doing what is good for you really does make you feel good