From the Editor`s Desk: My year of hobbies
(Android Central)

I`ve seen it all: friends posing victoriously next to 1000-piece puzzles or holding up freshly-baked sourdough loaves like a tasty Excalibur. I`ve watched detailed accounts of extraordinary meals from prep to completion using ingredients a year ago I would have been too intimidated to approach on my own. I`ve babied plants and succulents, tried my hand at Zoom paint nights, and spent more than a few evenings nodding off during a virtual board game that went on a bit too long. Next week will be a year since most of the world went into lockdown, and but for a few weeks in the summer, I and most of the people in my life never really emerged from it. The ebb and flow of home-bound life has exacted its toll on my mental and physical health, but I`ve also established a foundational rhythm that, by now, feels disturbingly normal. Work and childcare don`t leave much time for hobbies, but the ones I have developed have been all-encompassing, the usual tiptoe into new communities expedited b...