General:
- Save 20% of our income
- Take a family vacation
- Get a nice (professional) family photo taken
- Unsubscribe from at least half my current RSS feeds
- Find a better system for organizing and sharing family photos and videos
Cooking:
- Cook five new things, from at least three from different sources (cookbooks, websites, etc)
- Find a good dairy-free ice cream recipe
Projects:
- Launch at least one project from my brainstorm list
- Make a game other people can play
- Publish a family cookbook
Exercise:
- 50 pushups a day (or 350 a week)
- 60 minutes of cardio per week
- 60 minutes of stretching per week
- One Darebee program every month
Books to read:
- Little Women
- Star Wars: The Fallen Star
- The Lincoln Highway: A Novel
- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Peace, Love and Barbecue
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
- The Silmarillion
Books in consideration:
- Moby Dick
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- The Great Gatsby
- Children of Dune
- To Raise a Boy
- These Truths
- Rich, White and Blue
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- The Round House: A Novel
- Southern Cross the Dog
- The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
- The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
- The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
- All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
- The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
- Exit West: A Novel
- Educated: A Memoir
- Sourdough: A Novel
- Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
- The Dutch House: A Novel
- The Island of Sea Women: A Novel
- The Pope and Mussolini
Books
April 27: Finished Little Women at last, after almost half the year of inching through it. I enjoyed it.
May 25: I thought The Fallen Star would finish out this series of High Republic novels. Looks like there's at least one more.
July 14: The Lincoln Highway has some of the best writing I've seen in a while. Well worth the read.
Aug. 10: Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore is like a time capsule of the techno-utopia of 2012. Pure fun, even if the Google-worship hasn't aged as well.
Aug. 25: Peace, Love and Barbecue was good, broad look at barbecue told by Mike and Amy Mills. The stories are more interesting than the recipes. Ready to buy a smoker now.
Oct. 24: Finally read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Decided to keep going and read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, too. Not sure if I'll plow ahead or take a break from Douglas Adams.
Dec. 26: Dove into The Silmarillion after watching Rings of Power. Happy to check that box.