It seems like everyone has been making a “bucket list” nowadays.

Heck, even Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, two iconic performers of the silver screen, made a movie about doing the things they’ve always wanted to do before they “kicked the bucket”, so to speak, a few years ago.

I have often thought, particularly in recent times as I’m getting increasingly older, about what I wanted to experience in whatever time I had left, so I’d like to share with you my official “Bucket List” – knowing that most of them, if not all of them, will never happen as they are too impractically and financially unrealistic, of course…

1.  Play in a celebrity softball game in a major league stadium.

2.  Relearn how to play bass guitar, as I tried to learn the string bass in high school, but it didn’t work out.

3.  Learn how to play guitar; who doesn’t fantasize about being a rock star?

4.  Participate in one practice with the football, baseball, and softball teams of my collegiate alma mater, UCLA – they’re my favorite sports to watch (football) and play (baseball and softball), and I know I’d have an absolute blast of a time.

5.  Spend time on a farm feeding and interacting with horses, cows, and other farm animals, enjoying the outdoors as I seem to have a thing with four-legged creatures.

6.  Spend a month in a cabin in the woods by a lake. The serenity would be very therapeutic after spending 35 years dealing with Los Angeles and all the issues and pressures that go with a big city like that.

7.  See the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., along with the Capitol, the White House, and all the other usual sites there.

8.  Go to Philadelphia, eat hoagie cheese steaks from Pat’s and Geno’s, two places that I saw on the Travel Channel, and work that food off by running the steps of the Museum of Art – the “Rocky” steps.

9.  Visit the spot where Ebbets Field, the Dodgers’ former home, stood in Brooklyn and pay homage to the great Jackie Robinson and the other “Boys of Summer”.

10.  Go to Times Square, see a Broadway play, and visit John Lennon’s “Imagine” memorial at Central Park in New York City.

11.  See a Red Sox Game at Fenway Park in Boston and check out what Red Sox Nation is really about.

12.  See a Cubs game at Wrigley Field in Chicago and lead the singing of “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” during the 7th inning stretch. I had a chance to go to a doubleheader there in the late 80’s, but it poured rain the whole time, so this is unfinished business.

13.  Go to England and take a Beatles pilgrimage, as they are the best musical act of all time; tour the Cavern Club and other Beatle landmarks in Liverpool, then visit Abbey Road Studios and cross the street featured in the “Abbey Road” album in London.

14.  See an English Premier League Football (soccer) match.

15.  Go to India and see the Taj Mahal along with the rest of the country.

16.  Journey to Ghana in West Africa and see the old slave forts off the coast, then visit South Africa and meet Bishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.

I recognize that this is a fairly long list, and as I’ve said, the likeliness of me doing the vast majority of these things – especially the traveling abroad – is slim and none, but hey, one can dream, right?

If nothing else, when I imagine myself doing these things, it helps to keep me sane when I’m feeling low, depressed and in turmoil from all the things that life often throws at you.

So while I wait for some rich benefactor to remember me in his or her will (Ha!), I’ll just keep fantasizing about doing these things.

On the other hand, who knows?

Like I once heard someone say, “Never say never”.