good wishes

• rent an entire restaurant for my 50th birthday party-preferably a restaurant in Paris
• learn to parasail on an exotic island
• play timpani in a symphony orchestra
• flirt with Paul Newman
• own a Mark Cross briefcase
• spend a day in the British Museum
• make a sand painting
• read a book from cover to cover in one sitting
• ride the fabled Moscow subway system
• tour England's Jane Austen country-Bath, Winchester, and "the counties"
• design the costumes for a Broadway musical
• finish an all-day sucker
• travel to Worms, where Martin Luther made his stand
• watch all the "Road" pictures starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour