Today on The Dead Life we’ll hear from author Laura Carney whose book My Father’s List: How Living My Dad’s Dreams Set Me Free, should inspire us all. On the cusp of middle age, a newlywed journalist discovers and finishes the bucket list of her late free- spirited father. Fifty-four adventures in six years. That’s what thirty- eight-year-old journalist Laura Carney embarked on when she discovered her late father Mick’s bucket list. This is Laura Carney’s second appearance on The Dead Life, let’s see what she’s been up to!

Laura Carney

Laura Carney is a writer and copy editor in New York. She’s been published by the Washington Post, the Associated Press, The Hill, Runner’s World, People magazine, Guideposts, Good Housekeeping, The Fix, Upworthy, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper and other places, and her book My Father’s List: How Living My Dad’s Dreams Set Me Free is being published by Post Hill Press in June 2023. Her work as a copy editor has been primarily in magazines, for 20 years, including Good Housekeeping, People, Guideposts, Vanity Fair, and GQ. She’s @myfatherslist on Instagram, @lac30 on Twitter, and her website is bylauracarney.com.