The smell of writing
I just finished filling up the A4 size Master Dots notebook from Leuchtturm1917. It’s a nice book, and I’m tempted to start another one. Instead, I found myself writing in a new poor man’s midori I...
View ArticlePencils more expensive than I thought?
I’ve used up 2 pencils in the last few weeks. One was a Palomino Blackwing, the other a Musgrave Test Scoring pencil. Together about $2.20 worth of pencils, or about $50/yr. Really, it’s more than...
View ArticleDoes it really need to be that permanent?
If you read any of the forums or blogs related to pens you know ink permanence is a recurring subject. I suspect everyone gets interested in it at some point or another. I myself have more than once...
View ArticleThe Burden of Ink
I’ve accumulated a fair bit of ink over the years. Some of it I like, and of course there’s ink I don’t like very much. Purple that is called blue, or gray that is called black both turn me off. Any...
View ArticleBlack is back
As I started pulling old pens out of storage and cleaning & filling them, I realized another change that’s happened in the intervening years. I’d switched to black ink. My mother was always a...
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