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Introducing my next bucket list. Oh, and let’s share a virtual coffee.

Writing Sparkle

Welcome to book review two of fifty-three. As you are aware, I provide freelance book reviews to several review companies. It has been a great experience that has introduced me to new authors and their wonderful books. Each week this year, I’m opening my Weekend Coffee shares with a link to a review I’ve provided. Reviews are three stars or higher. The genres range from picture books to fiction and nonfiction titles.

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Author Sue Dvorak
Published in April 2025
The publisher is GFB
Available in eBook and Paperback (346 pages)
Motherhood in Women’s Studies | Motherhood (Kindle Store)

If we were having coffee, I would share as promised last week, my 60-Before-60 bucket list I’m actively working on this year.

60-Before-60

  1. Journal regularly
  2. Learn about the Illustrated Life Journal and Art Therapy
  3. Join a book club
  4. Write a book for 7 to 9-year-olds
  5. Write a children’s book
  6. Complete two 3000-piece puzzles
  7. Make homemade Christmas cards
  8. Re-watch all the seasons of Friends
  9. Go on a haunted walk
  10. Visit a winery
  11. Go on a vacation, just me and my hubby
  12. Go on a lunch or dinner boat cruise (local)
  13. Grow my blog to 2000 followers
  14. Go roller skating
  15. Do a tarot reading daily for myself
  16. Start my days with 1 to 5 sun salutations
  17. Try a new craft, maybe paint by numbers or something
  18. Finish one full Illustrated Life journal book
  19. Choose and read five nonfiction books (memoir/biography): My Love Story by Tina Turner, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Friends, Lovers, & Big Terrible Things by Matthew Perry, and My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
  20. Write a “How I write” type of book (not necessarily for publication)
  21. Learn about the Sabbaths and include aspects in my traditional holiday celebrations
  22. Read a book by Robin Hobb
  23. Get a library membership
  24. Join a writer’s group (in person or online)
  25. Complete a 5000-piece puzzle
  26. Complete a 9000-piece puzzle
  27. Have a picnic
  28. Have a candlelight dinner at home
  29. Try baking butter tart squares
  30. Mail 4 to 5 postcards (are postcards still a thing)
  31. Learn a version or two of the solitaire card game with a physical deck of cards
  32. Take an online course in tarot, crystals, energy, or something witchy
  33. Have root beer floats with my family
  34. Something ice-cream: maybe an ice-cream party or try all the flavours of hard ice-cream on the menu at my local ice-cream shop
  35. Barbecue a pizza
  36. Visit a farmer’s market
  37. Complete a photo of the day challenge (1 picture every day for 365 days; share daily or weekly on IG, FB, and X)
  38. Add some strength training to my weekly fitness routine
  39. Make jam
  40. Create a cookbook for each of my boys
  41. Get a couple’s psychic reading
  42. Get a fish and name it either Pumpkin or Honey
  43. Draw on location with my life journal
  44. Go to a street festival
  45. Eat at a food truck
  46. Watch a parade
  47. Have a family slumber party
  48. Make an ice-cream cake
  49. Go apple picking
  50. Make apple candle holders (fancy fall dinner)
  51. Do an Advent puzzle
  52. Go to an airshow
  53. Be confident enough with my tarot to give readings for close friends and family
  54. Research yoga retreats (maybe attend one)
  55. Research writer’s retreats (maybe attend one)
  56. Fireside picnic in my living room
  57. Read a book from the banned book list
  58. Visit a zoo
  59. Write a “100 things I love” list
  60. Visit a museum or an art gallery
  61. Bonus: Spend 24 hours without an agenda or schedule

If we were having coffee, I would ask if you have a current bucket list or if you have completed one previously.

If we were having coffee, I would share that I’m still working on my 2000-piece puzzle, so I don’t have a photo of it this week. After I finish it, I’m moving on to try my first three-thousand-piece one, which is a bucket list item. Another bucket list item is the photo challenge. I have completed thirty-nine days so far, and I am loving it. If you would like to follow along on that journey or join in, you can find me at X or Instagram @sharimarshallauthor. (Linktree) Here is a picture from this week; it connects to my tarot journey as well.

Here is the coffee bean grinder. Please leave a link in the comment section so I can visit your Coffee Share.

By Shari Marshall (2026)

12 thoughts on “Introducing my next bucket list. Oh, and let’s share a virtual coffee.”

  1. I like your list, a very doable one! When I was 30 I wrote a bucket list. The things I do remember from the list is: Having one more child, become friends with a wild horse, improve my English (by reading at least one 300+ page book/month, blog, and to seek opportunities to speak English,) ride The Tevis Cup, Ride the Mongolian Derby, and ride The Pacific Crest Trail. I did not complete any of the rides, even though I have ridden most sections of The Tevis and The Pacific Crest Trail.

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  5. That looks like a fun and manageable list. And it looks like you’re doing well checking things off. The question is: how many years do you have left to compete the list? 🙂

    I’m not into bucket lists, but I try to achieve certain things throughout the year and keep a “mental list” of goals and destinations.

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