Not Every Bucket List Needs Checkmarks A Guest Post from Tony Perona We welcome Tony Perona, one half of the father-daughter writing team Elizabeth Perona, to Midnight Inks blog today! Tony explores bucket lists...and why writing them down and checking them off may not be so important, after all. (Although, checking off bucket list items can be entertaining...when youre the characters of the Bucket List mystery series! The third in the series, Murder at the Male Revue , is available now!) My father-in-law died in March of this year, just a week shy of his 95th birthday. I realize now that I never asked him if hed had a bucket list, or if he did, if hed accomplished all of the things on it. This is strange, considering that Liz and I write the Bucket List mystery series about older people knocking items off their bucket lists. We ask a lot of people questions about whats on their bucket lists. But for whatever reason, not him. But as I look back on it, I dont think we needed to. ...