I’m prone towards “flings.” Two years ago it was gardening. I started a blog, I spent all my birthday money on gardening stuff, I read obsessively about all things green, I experimented with botanical photography, I spent all my free time outside. . . This year, it’s nutrition. I’m an avid reader of Word of Wisdom Living and have recently taken to following 101 Cookbooks. I subscribe to Science Daily’s nutrition feed. I checked Heidi Swanson’s recipe book “Super Natural Every Day” from the library and have loved her recipes: rye soda bread, curried lentil and farro soup, broccoli gribiche, Orzo with broccoli pesto, poppy seed waffles, potato cauliflower soup, quinoa patties. Everything has had such flavor and yet such health. Your body just welcomes it. In accepting my study of nutrition this year I splurged and bought the America’s Test Kitchen’s Healthy Family Cookbook from Costco. While it isn’t as healthy as I often seek to be, (I want to use all whole grains, and they always use some all-purpose flour, for example) I think it will be a great middle ground cookbook. The kind you make dishes from that you will be serving to those of a less nutritional mindset. Not to mention I think I will learn a lot of tips for making nutitions food more appealing texturally and flavorally. (Is that a word?) I’ve only made their whole grain dinner rolls, so I’ve yet to give it a fair trial as yet. I’ll let you know. 
P.S. As far as flings go writing is not one of them. Writing is a constant in my life, and for that reason there will likely be several blog posts today.