Merry Pastimes is a quarterly activity book for older adults, made to spread joy through each season and give readers a playful outlet, one issue at a time.

Each issue runs 20 full-color pages, printed in large, easy-to-read type. Inside you will find puzzles and brain games, coloring pages, stories, a poem, pages of vintage artwork from long ago, and questions that start conversations, like our “Would You Rather” page with room to write your own answers. Every edition is made only for its season and never repeated. The first issue arrives in December 2026, with the next in March 2027.

Some readers keep their copy on the kitchen table and work through it a page at a time. Others share it with a spouse, a friend, or a whole activity room. However you read it, know this: when you pick up Merry Pastimes, you are important, loved, blessed, strong, and secure. Remember the past and look forward to the future.

Who makes it?

Diane Skyland created Merry Pastimes to bring a little more fun and a few more smiles to the world. Merry Pastimes is a production of Surefly Studio LLC, published from Kāneʻohe, Hawaiʻi.

How to get it

Personal subscriptions
$10 per issue
$36 per year (4 issues), a 10% saving

Give a gift subscription: four issues for a parent, grandparent, or friend
$10 per issue
$36 per year (4 issues), a 10% saving

Bulk subscriptions
For care communities, community centers, and activity programs: bulk copies ship together to one address at tiered prices, from $9.00 a copy at five or more down to $5.50 at 250 or more.


Order by mail: send a check payable to Surefly Studio LLC to Merry Pastimes, P.O. Box 466, Kaneohe, HI 96744.

Share your own merry pastimes

Send your favorite memories, jokes, poems, and activity ideas to Merry Pastimes, P.O. Box 466, Kaneohe, HI 96744, or email merrypastimes@gmail.com. Reader contributions help fill future issues.

Merry Pastimes: a seasonal way to explore and play.