If I could do it all again...

...I would:

• teach speech, not composition.
• never let my body get so out of shape.
• work harder at retaining details (names, authors, dates...)
• be published.
• have told my dad how I loved him.
• save more money.
• record the stories I tell my kids nightly.
• learn a language a year.
• retire by now.
• read with Intention.
• live with Intention.
• take school seriously the first time.
• compare and commit to a religion, conscientiously.
• take more people under my wing.
• take more people into my confidence.
• take more naps (hard to imagine, eh?).
• swim and play tennis as my lifetime sports (rather than croquet).
• travel more.
• dance more.
• drink more water.
• be a better (fill in the blank: father, son, spouse, teacher...)
• not let friendships go fallow.
• master all-things farming.
• be self-sustaining.
• invent something significant (and lucrative).

This is a good exercise, for I am learning most of the items here are ones that I CAN STILL DO, if I just get up and go at it!