The Orlando Pen Club had a meetup today for the annual Fountain Pen Day (Nov 1st), and I drove down to attend. I’d talked to a few of the members online, but this was my first meeting. There was around thirty people there, I think. Everyone was kind and welcoming. Read more
Over a dozen years ago, when I was married, I bought a Pilot Vanishing Point fountain pen in the “stealth” color — all matte black, including the nib, which is an extra-fine. It’s a very nice pen. Back then I had a habit of putting my pens away without cleaning Read more
The essay on spindles in history has been updated, if you’re interested. The cross stitch is halfway done. According to the new cross stitching app I’m using on my Android tablet, the completed project has 67,980 stitches. Mind-blowing. Something else that’s mind-blowing: the fact that most humans have fingers that Read more
Yesterday I went to the first Orlando Pen Show. It was my first pen show, too, and I had a great time. I went with my friend The Artist, who is not into fountain pens but was happy to go with me. She lives in another state but was visiting Read more
A few weeks ago I got the urge to binge recent episodes of The Pen Addict podcast. It had been several years since my last listen. When I got divorced in 2015, I sold off most of my fountain pen collection, and pretty much got out of both the hobby Read more