Hobbies

Have you always wanted to quilt? Or are you on the hunt for a great hobby to dive into? Here is a quick and easy tutorial, suitable for beginner quilters. It’s the perfect place to start! In this short tutorial, you will learn how to cut, stitch, and create pinwheels from 7″ squares of fabric…

I devoured Sebastian Fitzek’s Therapy over the course of a single foggy, drizzly weekend, and in hindsight, the weather couldn’t have set a more fitting mood. I picked it up for a fairly simple reason: this year marks 20 years since Fitzek’s German original novel was first published, and the anniversary arrived with a new audiobook edition…

Have you awakened smack dab in the middle of the night only to have runaway thoughts start flooding your mind as an endless loop of worries, frets, self-criticism, financial doom, or any number of problems you need to solve? The trick of the trap when that happens is that the looping, ruminating thinking is very […]

My husband has always been a complete DYI person. Remodeling a couple of homes? Yep, did that. Build a 30×30 foot shop? Yep, did that. Rebuild an antique car by taking it down to nuts and bolts and putting it back together? A bit challenging, but yes, did that. Cleaning gutters, painting, indoor and…

Recently, I was asked by an interviewer if there was one moment that was particularly meaningful to me throughout my successful career. Of all my achievements, accolades, and encounters, one meaningful moment stands out. It happened after a performance backstage…

I chose to reinterpret neurographic art because, as an artist, I didn’t feel comfortable with the strict protocol established by Pavel Piskarez, its creator. Furthermore, since I haven’t received training from an expert in this art therapy method, I didn’t feel qualified to provide a thorough explanation of the therapeutic aspect of the approach…

I have a question for you. How many poems have you written that no one has ever read? How many stories, letters, journal entries, or treasured memories are tucked away in a drawer or saved on your computer? Perhaps you’ve written about your childhood, your parents, your husband or wife, your children…

There’s a particular kind of freedom that arrives, if you’re lucky, in the last chapters of a life. Not the freedom of open roads and infinite possibility – that’s a young person’s freedom, showy and exhausting. This is quieter: the freedom of no longer caring what people think, because you’ve run out of time to perform for them…

When you live in a city, you might not have much room for gardening. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you don’t have the space for it at all – your apartment probably has a patio, a balcony, a fire escape, or even a tiny concrete garden. If that’s the case, you’ll only need the right tools and the knowledge of which plants…

According to an article in Forbes magazine, doodling isn’t always linear. It’s defined as an aimless sketch, design or scribble, often created while doing something else. Its appeal is that the result doesn’t have to be perfect or fit a certain ideal…