Tag: Hobbies

The Latest Craze in Hobby Crafting: Becoming a 21st-Century Blacksmith

The amateur blacksmiths were hard at work: heating metal rods, then hammering them into shape. Reheating, hammering some more, twisting and bending, and finally, hours later, creating small metal hooks. It was hot, slow, painful work. For some, it was also thrilling. “Metal and fire and hitting stuff hard? You can’t go too far wrong,” […]

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His World Shrank in the Pandemic. So He Shrank His World.

In March 2020, Danny Cortes was already facing a crisis — he was out of work, in the middle of a divorce and serving a four-year probation sentence for selling drugs — when Covid hit. He found himself isolated and devoting an unhealthy amount of time to Instagram. Idly scrolling his feed, he noticed a […]

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