The comic Stephen Wright once quipped "I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it..."

Just about everyone has a hobby. My father tinkers with toy trains; my mother goes to garage sales and my wife keeps a scrapbook. Hobbies relax us, allowing our mind to saunter off the information super highway seeking a place of quiet rest. There are common hobbies and some are more unique. For example, if you enjoy receiving parking tickets from various municipalities then you are a Fee-late-ilist.

If you live in southeastern Texas and enjoy measuring the distance baseballs travel at a game then your hobby is Houston Astrophysics. If you enjoying talking with others about pigs then your hobby is Ham radio. If you collect school tests in which your score was between 80% and 89% then your hobby is beekeeping. If you enjoy sewing the words of the national anthem in Braille so they can be appreciated by blind then your hobby is crochet-can-you-see? If you enjoy creating miniature representations of IRS employees then your hobby is dull making or bored games depending on your perspective. If you enjoy frequently getting married and divorced then your hobby is Elizabeth Tayloring.

If you enjoy gathering water from a well then your hobby is drawing. If you enjoy complaining about high gas prices then your hobby is oil pain-ting. If you enjoy expressing neutral opinions on various topics then your hobby is so-ing. If you enjoy gambling on when the garbage truck will hull away your trash then your hobby is scrap-booking. If you desire a trip to the forest so much so that it makes you pant and salivate than your hobby is wood craving. If you are disgusted by the seventeenth letter of the alphabet and you go around making signs stating your opinion then your hobby is Antiquing (think about it). If you play poker with your friends, lose, but then come back the next day and proclaim that you could have had a better hand then you enjoy post-card collecting. If you enjoy composing music about a prison in New York then your hobby is Sing Sing-singing.

If you enjoy waving at members of royalty then your hobby is hi-king. If you enjoy making alcohol in your kitchen and giving it to bears then your hobby is home bruin-ing. If you enjoy games in which you pretend to a pastry then you enjoy roll-playing. If you enjoy getting together with friends and mimicking mass panic then your hobby is hysterical reenacting. If you enjoy dressing up like a pirate and playing with a round children’s toy which has a string then your hobby is yo-ho-ho-yo-yoing. If you enjoy gathering all the money you earned last year that was not taxed then your hobby is coin collecting.

If you enjoy making pillows that celebrate a candy which melts in your mouth and not in your hand then your hobby is m and embroidery. If you enjoy making cartoons about a home loan company then your hobby is Fannie Mae-tion. If you enjoy contests in which you and your friends discuss clothes you had on the night before then your hobby is wore-games. If you enjoy talking with folks from Miami then your hobby is foreign languages. If you enjoy creating time pieces for canaries and parakeets then your hobby is bird-watching. If you dream of a day when football players will be paid less than $1 million dollars a season then your hobby is Fantasy Sports. If you enjoy gathering the lower end of dead trees and placing them in your back yard then your hobby is stump-collecting.

What’s my hobby? Well, I enjoy typing words on to a page and then correcting them for grammar, content, etc., yes, my hobby is Righting.