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Why you should kick the “bucketlist”

  By Robert Reid | April 15, 2013 - 6:31 am | , ,
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It’s never been a great idea to plan any aspect of your life around a buzzword popularized by a terrible movie. And Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as selfish dying strangers who run off in their final days to tackle a handful of testicular-swelling tasks, happens to be a terrible movie. It got panned on its release in 2006, yet it … Read on →

My dad’s ‘bucket list’: Black Hills, South Dakota

  By Robert Reid | February 19, 2013 - 4:15 pm | , , , ,
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Last year, on the 10th anniversary of my dad’s death, I wrote about taking my dad to one his ‘bucket list’ destinations — before that term was in use: the Black Hills of South Dakota. As I wrote last April: Lonely Planet sent me on a research trip around the Great Plains, and I cajoled him away from work for a few days … Read on →