Kim Z. Dale

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I'll post the first list on Monday. In the meantime, you can obsessively read the about page. See you soon.

I started a blog on ChicagoNow when I was 39. Around that age some people make lists of “40 things to do before 40.” Those lists almost always involve skydiving and/or getting a tattoo. I don’t want to skydive or get a tattoo, and the last thing I need is another to do list. But I do like making lists. I like making lists a lot.

I decided I would do the opposite of those other people. I decided to make a list of “40 things that would be nice but there is really no way they will happen before I’m 40.” Then I decided to go one step further and make 40 lists each with 40 items. The lists will be on a wide variety of topics. I’d post one each week for the 40 weeks leading up to my 40th birthday.

After I outgrew my original blog title of “Listing Toward Forty” I kept writing about the arts and technology and Chicago and whatever else came to mind. Posts from 2018 or earlier were migrated from the ChicagoNow site, so some of the formatting may be weird.

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