
The beauty of analog stationery is that it runs out
This has been a recovery week. I spent four days off of my phone, with few exceptions. My head lay in books from my mountainous to-read pile.
Reading helps me recharge. A trying school year and six weeks of travel saw me feeling ragged. Consequently, I read a lot this week. Four of five weekdays were spent reading. I feel like myself again now.

A homemade pen case for less than $10
My local pen group continues to grow. We had 16 people attend last Saturday’s gathering. And I raffled off a homemade 10-pen storage case.

The scholar is back … from stumbling onto stationery in San Diego
A heart-felt thank you to everyone who reached out to share congratulations and/or to check in with me these past two weeks. I’m grateful.
And I’m excited to get back into my weekly reflections.

To grind a nib or not to grind a nib, part two
Nib grinders, in just the past few years, have experimented in earnest with new and exciting ways to alter the shape of a pen’s tipping. And so, alter the writing experience.
Nib grinds, as I see it, add drama to the writing experience, tailor your pen to serve a specific kind of writing, and turn a pen into more than one writer.