Hobby Dabbler

I love aerial videos – who doesn’t? I love them even more when it’s a new perspective of my surroundings. Normally we’re limited to what we can see with our own eyes when driving, taking a walk, or riding a bike. Occasionally, when flying (which I haven’t done in a few years), you get the […]

"It’s better to call drinking a hobby than a habit." -Dave Imbordino

I hadn’t even considered the category of “social hobbies” when I was making Hobby Dabbler but I’m totally convinced that if the main reason of doing a hobby is to socialize, then it ought to get some kind of credit. Instead of an actual tag, like how I normally bin the hobbies I try, I’m […]

"Sometimes we miss our rendezvous with Good Fortune because we're not paying attention." -Dave Stouder

Learning to sail was not on my bucket list. In fact, I’d never actually been on a sailboat in open water before I took the class. One day, when talking with a friend of a friend who happened to be another federal employee, I learned that I have access to the Naval Support Activity attached […]

My best friend, Kathryn, and I have kids around the same age. Needless to say, even though we live 45 minutes apart, we spend a lot of time together and the kids have grown up like brother and sister. I’ve tried a few past times to bond with my son, Giuliano: riding scooters at the […]

Back in 2007, I took my photography side gig to the next level – I quit my secure, government job and decided to run my photography studio full time. So, when my engineer friend announced recently that he quit his job to pursue his plant propagation passion full-time with an app he’s building, I was […]