- Invented a complete language and alphabet.
- Been cast in the role of Elwood Dowd; unfortunately the play (Harvey) never made it to performance.
- Been celibate between the ages of 19 and 26.
- Taken my 12-year-old daughter on an overnight canoe trip.
- Made eye contact with two wolves in the wild.
- Chatted casually with Canadian prima ballerina, Veronica Tennant; I was about 15 and she was at the height of her career.
- Taken a five-generation photograph of my family: my great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, brother and nephew.
- Heard Buffy Sainte-Marie in concert at a powwow.
- Delivered a blowjob in a snowstorm.
- Raised a newly hatched cedar waxwing to adulthood.