This Is My Thing explores the ways we find and bring joy into our lives. It’s about the things we do not because it’s a job or a necessity, but simply because we love to do them.
You’ll meet a guy who finds satisfaction in using his metal detector to find other people’s lost objects and you’ll hear from a group of retired ladies who started a ukulele band just because it sounded fun. And that’s just the start.
Listen to the show on air on KUT every Tuesday or subscribe to the This Is My Thing podcast feed.
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On this week's episode, we're talking with two longstanding members of the Austin Pen Club, Cindy Miller and Craig Bond, about their shared love of collecting and using fountain pens. -
On this episode of This Is My Thing, we’re talking with Becky James about her love of upcycling greeting cards. She stumbled upon the hobby after retirement and now she's on a bit of a mission to save old greeting cards from the landfill by turning them into new and improved cards. -
Theresa Bond Zelazny has been an artist all her life, but a few years ago she turned that lifelong passion into a new hobby: creating small artworks and distributing them randomly for strangers to find and (hopefully) enjoy. She calls it 'guerrilla art.' -
On this episode of This Is My Thing, we'll talk with Justin Kizzart about his love of sumo and sharing the sport with others. -
James Hughes discovered the world of gaming with miniatures as a child and has happily lived in that world ever since. It's kind of like three hobbies in one — it's a collection, it's a creative outlet, and it's (of course) a game. -
When Corey Squires was bored as a kid, hid grandfather would hand him a block of wood and a knife. Then, years later, he rediscovered a love for whittling and wood carving. -
Anna Kehl decided to attend QuiltCon a dozen or so years ago and soon found herself falling in love with the art of quilt making. -
In this episode of This Is My Thing, we'll talk with artist Carol Aaron about her love for an art form that's millennia old but not that well known outside the art world. -
In 1979, while he was in grad school, a young Bart Jacob was introduced to the ancient board game Go. He didn't know at the time that it would become a lifelong obsession. -
Lesley Murray grew up as a competitive swimmer. Then, a couple of years ago, she took a Deep End Fitness class and discovered Underwater Torpedo League. Now she has a sport and a community that she loves.
