The story of how he developed a passion for philately is interesting. Ahmed Abdulrahman studied psychology at the Emirates University and then worked as a teacher for a year. He then went on to become ...

I met my friend Paul at summer camp. Paul was a canoe-tripper—most famous for the summer he abandoned his campers for three days alone and unsupervised on an island in LaVérendrye Wildlife Reserve. He ...

Keeping a collection of arbitrary objects may be irrational. It is also a way of coping with an unpleasant reality.

What keeps somebody glued to a hobby for 70 years? For Steve Reinhard, 78, who has been happily stuck on stamp collecting for seven decades, the pastime delivers first-class delight. Every tiny sticky ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secret hobby was not much of a secret by the time he reached the White House. Stamp collecting had followed him from a boyhood spent poring over his mother’s albums to a ...