What were your favorite hobbies as a kid? Did you like rock collecting? Caring for tadpoles? Writing poetry? When I was 8, I knew a boy whose favorite hobby was eating bugs. As a kid, I thought it was ...

Consider this roundup of a dozen of-the-moment hobby ideas a menu to choose from. To account for the fact that a gallon of milk now costs a ...

Knitting, cooking, and gardening can do a lot more for your brain than you think. After knitting a scarf, you can’t help but feel a sense of accomplishment. When your garden starts to flourish, you ...

Find a hobby you'll enjoy—and stick to—by understanding which personality type you are: extroverted, agreeable, open, ...

Even if you're retiring wealthy, it's a good idea to look for hobbies that are relatively inexpensive. Your stream of income may be consistent and you may feel confident about not outliving your ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I like to talk, and, sometimes, when I find that I’m droning on and on, I rein myself in by ...

When was the last time you did something just for fun — not to make money, or be productive, or because someone else wanted you to? In this episode, a knitter, a rock climber and a cocktail enthusiast ...

Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple. Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being. Oona Varga spent her ...

If you want to lead a richer, more fulfilling, more social life as a retiree, you need to take up some new hobbies. The problem is that some hobbies are exorbitantly expensive, which might eat into ...