Say you want a new hobby.  You’re in the market for something educational.  You want something not too taxing, a little old-fashioned, but you don’t want to collect stamps.  And maybe – just maybe – you get a bit of a thrill when you pick up a penny in the street and see that the date imprinted on its scratched and tarnished copper surface predates your...

Most of us relegate our bikes to the garage the moment we attain a driver’s license; and there they sadly sit, gathering dust.  Yet, there are so many benefits to riding a bike that we often end up coming back to our trusty two-wheelers later in life and wondering how we ever could have left them by the wayside in favor of gas-guzzling, emission-spewing, majorly...

Most hobbies require a certain amount of dedication.  Many necessitate training of some sort (skydiving or sailing, for example), practice (sports), and an extended learning process (online games, new languages, sewing techniques, car restoration, and any number of other knowledge-driven activities).  In short, you have to have an interest in what you’re doing...

When you hear the word “running”, you may not automatically associate the activity with something fun.  Most of us view the prospect of jogging as repugnant, a tedious chore that we’d rather skip.  Although we know it can provide many health benefits, we would simply rather avoid the effort required to carry out the exercise.  Hence a nation full of people...

If you were the student in high school or college who loved to write essays and short stories and still feel the itch to put pen to paper, writing as a hobby just might be the perfect outlet for your creative passion. While professional writers struggle to cope with the stress of impending deadlines and writer’s block, people who write as a hobby are free to simply...