In my previous posts, I established that I currently lead a hobby-deficient life, and that’s a problem for me. With this blog, I want to try new things and reflect on what I’m learning and how it’s enhancing my life. In others words, I want to find a hobby/hobbies that…

Last time, I wrote about how shopping was one of the things I used to fill the hobby void in my life. The second, more pernicious non-hobby I want to unpack is social media. While I think this a time-suck more people can relate to, it still doesn’t pass as…

In my last entry, I shared about how difficult it’s been for me to adopt hobbies in my spare time because kid Tina wasn’t taught that her interests mattered. So if I haven’t been spending my spare time on hobbies, what have I been doing with it? Enter shopping and…

When was the last time you thought about what your hobbies are? I’m well into my thirties, and astonished to find myself exploring this question for the first time…and honestly, I’m a little embarrassed that the answer comes up so short. Growing up, ‘hobbies’ were not a thing in my…