On This Is My Thing, we are continuing our mission to talk with people about the things they do just for themselves 鈥� not because it鈥檚 their job and not because it鈥檚 a responsibility, just because they love to do it. The stuff you do because it鈥檚 your thing.
This week we're talking with James Hughes about his nearly lifelong love of miniatures gaming. If you're not familiar, it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like 鈥� a type of gaming played with miniature figurines. James stumbled into this world as a kid while visiting a game shop with his dad, and he's been living in the world of miniatures ever since.
We鈥檒l talk about his love for all the aspects of miniatures 鈥� collecting them, painting them, and of course playing games with them. We'll visit his gaming studio (the spare bedroom where he stores and paints his miniatures, and which his wife insists on calling his 'man cave') and we'll learn what the hobby and the community mean to him, and what it's all doing for his heart and his brain.
On this page, you can listen to the on-air version of this story, but if you check out the , you鈥檒l find a longer version of this piece (as well as some older pieces you might have missed or might just want to listen to again).
We鈥檝e talked to a lot of other people about their things and those stories will be coming in future weeks. We鈥檙e working on stories about sumo wrestling, public art distribution, fountain pen collecting, and more! Stay tuned!
And we want to hear from you about the thing you do just because you love it! You鈥檒l find an online form on the main This Is My Thing page where you can tell us about the thing that brings you joy, calms your mind, or feeds your soul in some way.
