The Washington Post, February 22nd, 1987
When I was a kid and had to fill out applications, there was always a question about hobbies. That was the line where I considered lying. Should I put down stamp collecting? Should I say fishing, tropical fish, coin collecting, hiking or something equally awful? No. I just left the line blank. I was then, and remain to this day, a man without a hobby. For a good deal of my life, I considered my lack of a hobby a character defect. I was raised in the shadow of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was, we were incessantly told, a man with a hobby. It happened to be stamp collecting, which is the only trul...
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