Perhaps this is a bit serious; I'm no judge of that sort of thing.  What's your foolish dream?

Mine is to publish fiction.  Growing up, my best friends were the characters in fantasy and science fiction novels.  I had a very high reading level, so I often read books that were inappropriate for my age group.  When my classmates were pushing through Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary, I was reading Asimov, Stephen King, Anne McCaffery, Anne Rice.

When it was good, and I'll admit it wasn't always, there were times when I mocked even my favorite authors for an awkward phrase or confusing plot twist, but when it was good it was my favorite thing in the world, the interaction of the characters, the descriptions of settings, the emotional engagement.  I wanted to do that, I wanted to invent characters that were almost real, settings and situations that other people could relate to.  I'm a shy person, but an observer, and writing was the easyest way for me to express myself.

So I wrote my way through school, barely passing my classes except creative writing, writing fiction instead of taking notes, but never finishing anything before I moved onto something more exciting.  I still have a short story I wrote in second grade, and it's derivative and silly and shows little understanding of the world, but the description, the observation, is there, and it makes me remember things that I otherwise had forgotten.

At one point, I decided to self-publish serial fiction on a myspace blog, which I stopped doing after little more than six months.  It's at Little Claire Lost if you want to see it.  there are pages and pages; that link sends you to the beginnig of the story.

Now I'm mostly done with a more grown up fantasy novel.  When I am done, I'm going to start contacting agents to see if I can get representation.  It's a long shot, but it's not a foolish dream if it's not foolish.  

At my age, I'm more interested in what I want to do when I retire.  I'd love to work in a little neighborhood yarn store, surrounded by beautiful yarn and lots of time to knit and help others knit.  I don't want to own the store (don't want the responsibility), I just want to enjoy being there and helping others.  

And when I'm not working in the yarn store, I want to bike all around the country.  I'd like to bike a trail in every state, including Alaska and Hawaii.  Is that foolish enough?? 

I love your stories, Sir Rat!  I do hope you are able to continue them.  I'm glad to hear you found another position within the company - I know you weren't really ready for retirement.  Good luck!

My "foolish" dream. Has actually been the same one since I was a young child.  I've always wanted to train horses. When I was little it was show jumpers and such, middle-high school it was Thoroughbred racehorses, but after deciding I could never survive having to get up at 3-4am everyday.  I moved on to Arabian show horses. After not finding any viable resources in our area, or much helpful information from anyone in there in general I stumbled upon Morgans last year. Not only are they beautiful and freaking amazing, but there are two well known top farms in our area. So when we move, I'll be getting a horse, starting lessons, and studying to train and breed Morgan show horses. It was a foolish dream when I was younger but now I'm finally old enough to actually attempt it.