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if I was on Oprah I'd be jumping on her couch

About Me


__43 Things I Want To Do In My Life______
Save a life
Live with passion
Earn the respect of a great woman(CHECK)
Buy someone a house
Love my work
Fight for a womans honor
Be a father
See Dashboard Confessional in concert
Take more pictures(CHECK)
Lead a revolution
Change government policy(CHECK)
Skydive
Build a plane
Change a life
Marry my soul mate
Love well
Laugh more
Speak to a large group (CHECK)
Make someone cry for joy (CHECK)
Give somebody a car
Secretly pay for someones dinner at a restaurant (CHECK)
Write a book (CHECK)
Write another book
Free a slave
Be known and loved inspite(CHECK)
Become a better story teller
Sing Karaoke well (CH...)
Cause a blind man to see
Design and build a house
Enjoy my friends(SO CHECK'd)
Die of a broken heart
Learn to fly a helicopter
Have my own TV commercial
Build a legacy(CHECKING)
Be more courageous
Visit my childhood home in Germany
Touch souls with another(CHECK, CHECK)
Write a song for my children
Build a school
Be a better friend
Love without fear(CHECK)
Love after loving without fear (CHECK)
Have 100 Children (04/100)
Be someones hero
Be blindsided by love (CHECK)
Make a baby
Build an empire
Save a village
Start a company that outlives me
Leave an Inheritance
Put my niece through college
Start a foundation in someones name
Pay off my parents house
Sing at an open mic
Foil a robbery
Feel free (GETTING CLOSER)
Officiate a wedding
Plan my funeral
Vespa through Italy
Forgive easily (CHECK)
Be profiled in a magazine
Be an industry leader
Teach a boy to be a man
Teach a man to be a father
Heal someone's broken heart (CHECK)
Be in an earthquake
Pull someone out of a burning building
Hold someone's hand while they die
Deliver a baby
Champion someone's success(CHECK)
Give CPR and bring someone back(CH-)
Leave a $100 tip for a $10 meal
Train a dog(CHECK)
Walk away from a plane crash (Drew, you're my hero, you one up'd me again)
Go ice skating in NYC with someone I'm in love with
Have lunch with a stranger
Reach my potential
Cause someone to create thier own list of 43 Things (CHECK'd many times YESSSS)
Be a guest on Oprah and make her cry
Jump on Oprah's coach
Talk a jumper off of a ledge
Pass a kidney stone
Pull a prank that makes it on the news
See Neil Diamond in concert
Be in a musical and not tell anyone till opening night
Vacation on a yacht
Trust my instincts
Have a nickname given that sticks (SHANK DIDN'T LAST TOO LONG)
Listen more
Be dependable
Change the world or get rich trying
Inspire someone to greatness
Smile at strangers more on the street
Chronicle my life for my children
Take myself more seriously
Not take myself too seriously
Learn to play the bagpipes.
Play the bagpipes at my funeral
Drive cross country
Be nominated for a Nobel Prize
Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge (CHECK)
Fly in a P-51 Mustang
Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
Climb the pyramids in Egypt
Watch a soccer game overseas
Run with the bulls
Watch the ball drop in Time Square
Finish strong
"If youre worried about getting a job or keeping one start a company of your own. By doing so, youll reap the rewards of your hard work and youll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it." --Bruce Campbell

My Interests

Eye Contact, Sitting through the credits, Sarcasm, innovation, Social Entrepreneurism, my puppies, Dancing and signing spontaneously, finishing what I started, being on time, listening to music with nicole, chick flicks, warrior movies, passion, creativity,provoking, creating, dreaming, brainstorming, magazines, guitar, marketing, rooting for the underdog, movie hopping, spooning, rubbing Lucy's tummy, exploring, asking questions, walking through construction sites with my dad, giving from my heart, giving business advice to my dad and brother, dancing with my niece Zoe and watching her laugh, courage, Kelli's hugs, Lucy Belle's kisses, looking for intruders with chopper, winking- I love it when people wink at me,

Your thoughts...

I'd like to meet:

I'd love to share a pint with Bono. Mel Gibson, Oprah, My Wife, Nelson Mandela, my great-great-great grandchildren. I want to meet anyone with a good story, people that add more than they take, produce more than consume, trust more than assume. I want to meet you if you're willing to let down your guard and just be. Just raw. Just right.

Movies:

braveheart, gladiator, life as a house, love actually, life is beautiful, my life without me, In America, Crash, The Notebook, Legends of the Fall, We Were Soldiers, Closer, Born into Brothels, ElizabethTown, Tristan & Isolde

Television:

The OC, Grey's, What About Brian

Books:

Iread between the lines

Heroes:

Sherman, who loved so well, with so much passion, he truly did die of a broken heart.

My Father, who has been a solid rock, Unbreakable in character, Dad you inspire me.

My Mother, for pounding on the gates of Hell in search of her boy.

Dan Tocchini, for clearing a path through the jungle, and inviting so many to join you.

Marco Triano, for teaching me the way of the warrior.

My Blog

mY Kara

Kara ~ As told by Shane I always knew that God loved me. It wasn't until he brought me my soul mate that I actually knew how much. I had no idea. Kara is many things to many people. To some sh...
Posted by Shane" on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:51:00 PST

I want my Crayons" back!!

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with books on algebra etc. Being suddenly hit year...
Posted by Shane" on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:40:00 PST

Longing & Legacy

There lies in the heart of every man a quiet hunger. A longing for an earth shaking significance. It can be heard in the quiet, most unedited times like when our head hits the pillow at night. As the ...
Posted by Shane" on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:17:00 PST

eXTREME hOME mAKEOVER

Gets me every time. Somehow it interupts my paradigm. It echoes something deep. Something real. The faint and elussive call of purpose that whispers throughout my days takes a stage, and my ears open....
Posted by Shane" on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:13:00 PST

lost on the road between life and death..........................

When I was a child I held adventure near to my heart. As I laid in my bed I would doze off to heroic dreams; leading an army into battle, fighting off tigers and scaling a castle wall to rescue my pri...
Posted by Shane" on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:37:00 PST

Letter to my Grandpa

I have always loved a good warrior movie. I cried like a baby during "Steal Magnolias" but I wept during "Braveheart". I have always known that as a man, there was something great and significant in m...
Posted by Shane" on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:07:00 PST

43 Things

Throughout my childhood my father always spoke of a list which he had carried with him over the years. He spoke of the dreams that he had as a young man and his deep desire for adventure. This list...
Posted by Shane" on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:48:00 PST