1. I wish I were better at math.

2. I’d like to finish my novel, or write a new one, and see it published.

3. I wish I were better with people.

4. I wish that, instead of sirens, fire engines played ‘the hustle’.

5. I wish I remembered my Latin better.

6. I wish my natural speaking voice was softer.

7. I wish that I were more like my grandmother: unfailingly gentle, courteous, and kind.

8. I’d need to clean out my closet. Wish I’d do that.

9. I’d like to make a rope bed, and a mattress stuffed with straw.

10. I’d like to get out of the city more.

11. I’d like to be able to pay back my parents, financially and otherwise, for all the support they’ve given me over the years.

12. I wish Brian and I were in a place — financially, emotionally, and otherwise — where we could have children. Or child. Whatever. It’d be nice to have the option.

13. I’d like to play more music.

14. I wish I weren’t angry so often.

15. I want to find a library job while I’m in school, or soon after I graduate.

16.  I’d like to live in a place with Brian that’s quiet, private, and ours.

17. I wish Brian had health insurance.

18. I wish we had a lawn.

19. I wish the house didn’t smell so much like cat pee.

20. I wish I were better at having fun.

21. I wish I were better at knowing what I want.

22. I sometimes wish we lived somewhere where it snowed. (Don’t tell Brian).

23. I’d like to travel more.

24. I’d like to live somewhere else — Brazil, Australia, Italy… Somewhere.

25. I wish I saw my family more often.

26. I wish I were better at naming the things that frustrate me.

27. I’d like to learn how to knit.

28. I wish that my income exceeded my expenses.

29.  I wish it were spring.