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Managing Editor Scott Wright has been with The Post
since 1998. He is What's on your 'bucket list'? By Scott Wright The Post Photo Patrol Contest is in its sixth year – or is it the seventh? Regardless, it never ceases to amaze me, all the wonderful, original ideas people come up with for their try at our $1,000 first prize. A couple of weeks ago, we received a photograph from Kathy Miller, who posed with The Post while ice skating at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City. As part of the caption she included with the picture, Kathy commented that she had been able to mark another item off her “bucket list.”If you're not familiar with the term, a “bucket list” is a self-compiled catalog of events, occasions, or places you'd like to see or experience before you “kick the bucket.” Kathy was fortunate enough to be able to mark one of the items off her list and she let us, and by proxy all of you, share in the experience. Pretty neat, huh? Kathy's entry got me to thinking about my own bucket list. I've done some pretty cool things over the years, so I began to take inventory of my accomplishments. So far, in my 39-plus years, I've kicked up dust while walking down the ancient Roman Forum and, later that same day, after hours on my feet, I polished the marble-tiled floor of St. Peter's Cathedral with the seat of my blue jeans; I've pried my ghost-white knuckles from the steering wheel after circling Talladega Superspeedway at 175 mph; and I've dropped a nickel off the top of the Eiffel Tower (I'm sure Burgess Lane will deny it, but he dared me). I've been to Niagara Falls, Fenway Park, and the Super Bowl, too – all places that would definitely have been on my bucket list if I'd had one at the time. Hell, I even had my picture taken with Richard Petty once. You'd think it would have been all downhill from there, right? That's what I thought, too, until I really started thinking about all the things I still want to do that I haven't gotten around to. I've never been to Hollywood, and that's pretty much Mecca for a movie buff like me. I've never seen the White House or our nation's Capitol with my own eyeballs, either, and for someone of my political leanings there's never been a better time to visit Washington, D.C. (Mike Rogers, here I come!) I'd love to visit China, Greece and Switzerland, and maybe I'll save up the money some day. I think I have the marbles to go skydiving -- but there's no way in blue blazes I'd ever bungee jump. For some strange reason, I'd love to see the Panama Canal; and I wish I had the money to learn to fly a plane or maybe even go into space. What I really need, if you think about it, is to win the lottery – too bad for me that there are so many Republicans in Montgomery. Enough about me; I want to hear about the places you would like to see. Young, old or somewhere in between, I'd love to hear what type of wild, exotic places and events you have on your “bucket list.” Whether you've longed for the experiences for years or have just now begun to consider the possibilities, email me at swright@postpaper.com or snail mail your list to 100 East Main Street in Centre (35960). I'll take the best from the lot and we'll discuss them in a few weeks. Get to work, folks. None of us is getting any younger. |