Tag: Hobby

On several occasions I have paid money for the experience of picking my own fruits and vegetables on a farm. Every time, my brain is tickled by the palpable economic plot twist. Seeing a whole crowd of people lined up, willing to pay money for the opportunity to contribute their own labor to a farm,...

11-year-old Abdeil Belva Hadillah, affectionately known as “Abing,” has already made a name for himself in the world of football. With a host of individual awards and accolades under his belt, including “Player of the Week” and “Top Scorer,” Abdeil shines bright o...

The time has come for you to get a hobby. Having reached an undisclosed age, somewhere between enjoying yourself and death, you’ve now entered your hobby era. During this thirty-five to sixty-year period, you will be asked at least thrice daily what your hobbies are. If you don’t have an...

Traveling is a journey that goes beyond the very act of moving from one place to another. It’s a passport to expanding your horizons in ways you never thought possible. As you traverse the globe, you’re exposed to diverse cultures, each with its own unique customs, traditions, and belief...

Philanthropy, the act of giving to promote the welfare of others, is often driven by a deep desire to create positive change in the world. To inspire generosity, empathy, and action, philanthropists and organizations use storytelling. Stories have a unique power to connect, engage, and motivate peop...

The task was fairly simple. I explained I had guns I wanted to get rid of at the front desk. They made a copy of my driver’s license and then walked out to my car with me to retrieve them. We went into the station to an interview room where we looked at the guns and they wrote down the serial ...

I have always loved learning. I’m good at it, and it’s fun to find out things I didn’t know before. It feels good to get good, you know? And I’ve talked about how we seem to lose the motivation to learn at some point between the end of school and our first adult jobs. T...

These days, I don’t shop at the dispo very often. But I do subscribe to a handful of dispensary emails/texts. Why bother? For starters, I’m selective about my subscriptions. I’m not on every Tom, Dick & Harry email list, but I do have a few that I keep my eye on, even ...

There’s this idea that as soon as a hobby becomes mainstream and profitable that the culture created around pure enthusiasts becomes washed away by the dollars and cents created once it’s become monetized. A keen observer and writer wrote an article about the monetization of yoga*. A pra...