This is ‘My List of Desires’ instead of ‘My Bucket List’ Because Desire is a Better Focus Than Death

A list? So we open up a quarrelBetween the present and the pastWe only sacrifice the futureIt’s the bitterness that lasts So don’t yield to the fortunesYou sometimes see as fateIt may have a new perspectiveOn a different dayAnd if you don’t give up, and don’t give inYou may just be okay Living Years, Mike […]

My Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bucket List

My ties to the Post-Gazette run deep. I’ve mentioned that my great-grandfather Gilbert Remley was the Executive Sports Editor, in a career that spanned 50 years and three papers. My family was a newspaper reading family, something inherited from both my maternal and paternal lines. We ‘took’ 2-3 papers and sometimes more each day: the […]

Nothing Lasts Forever Not Even Bucket Lists

Pittsburgh Bucket List

Have you made your bucket list? Now’s the time — write about the things you want to do and see before you become dust in the wind. When I hear this song, I don’t think of bucket lists. Bucket lists are sort of a middle and upper middle class concept, grounded in the idea that […]

Forget the Glory Days – Make a New List

Glory Days Bucket Lists

What are your thoughts on aging? How will you stay young at heart as you get older? They say you are growing old (or dying) when you start creating bucket lists. So let’s give it a shot Five Things I Want To Do Before I Turn Fifty (in 6.5 years) See the Pacific Ocean in […]