Days after my forty-ninth birthday, I was rebounding from a three-year crippling depression. I needed to find meaning and reason to carry on when I made the most impulsive decision of my life. I would plan fifty new experiences before my fiftieth birthday.

If you're considering a bucket list project, don't break the bank. Here are some items I completed, and others that are still on my list.

My completed project is now a memoir looking for an agent. But you don't have to wait for the book, start having fun today.