Create Your Life Lists

by Deb Amlen

In a perfect world, we would all know what we want out of life and how to get it, but in reality, it helps to make a list. Deb Amlen guides the ambitious (and not so ambitious) through the process of creating life lists. Whether it's learning to play an instrument or circumnavigating the globe, this keepsake volume-with 10 envelopes tucked inside to hold mementoes-offers guidance, lists, and a journal to aid us in making every dream a reality.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 4, 2011

About the author

Deb Amlen is a humorist and crossword puzzle constructor whose work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Jersey Star-Ledger and other respectable, mainstream publications she tells her parents about when she calls to borrow money. At other times, she is part of the outlaw posse that writes The Onion/A.V. Club crossword puzzles and is also the “X Games” columnist for BUST Magazine, but don’t bring that up if you run into her folks at the Early Bird Special. It just makes them crazy.

She also writes a humor column called “Next Exit” about life in New Jersey for Springfield Patch.com.

Her first book, “It’s Not PMS, It’s You” (Sterling Publishing) is in stores and available online now, and she figures that, if she did it right, this book about male-female relationships will have absolutely no educational or life-changing qualities whatsoever. Please read it anyway.

She lives in New Jersey with her family and her Extremely Spunky Border Terrier™, Jade.