ARE YOU A HOBBYIST OR DO YOU WANT TO BE? THIS IS THE PLACE TO FIND ONE.

Miguel Figueroa MD the noted neurologist wrote recently…”Get a hobby now; it could save your life.” Thus begins the highly entertaining and informative book by Tina Barseghian titled “GET A HOBBY! 101 All-Consuming Diversions for Any Lifestyle”. There are so many suggestions that you should find it easy to get started down the road to hobby happiness. Every  entry presents all you need to know in order to get started with a particular pursuit. And also to determine if it's right for you. You will also find a list in each hobby of resources, books, and websites to instruct you.

Let’s take  look at three of the suggestions: African Violet Cultivation: Buying, planting suggestions and procedures are included, growing from a leaf methods, caring on an extended basis as well. If this is not your ”cup of tea” maybe you’d like to grow orchids, or bromeliads or even the most exotic bonsai. Ants, it has been said, could teach us humans a thing or two about living in a community.  They proliferate on a highly efficient social system. You can get into this hobby so easily, and what you will get in return is relaxation and pure fascination. Then there is “whittling,” and this is real relaxation. But with this hobby you actually produce a material object and have fun at the same time. The tools are simple and the work is not time consuming. You could exchange the wood for soap or wax as well for some variety.

The list of possibles goes on to include such as beer brewing, fishing fly tying, genealogy, gravestone rubbing, photography, furniture restoration, treasure hunting and scuba diving. Whatever your talents, or needs, you’ll find it all here plus suggestions for several thousand more hobbies. Finally, as the author enthuses…”I hope that reading this book will inspire to make the most of that rarest of all luxuries—your free time.”