mnmlscholar 12/9/20 mnmlscholar 12/9/20

Pen care is self care

One of the perks to using fountain pens is change. I enjoy choosing new pen and ink combinations. Cleaning and filling pens with ink is a meditative activity. Those moments offer time to stop, to breathe, and to return to living in the present. A low ink capacity, in other words, is meditative.

mnmlscholar 12/5/20 mnmlscholar 12/5/20

What’s in a name?

There has been a development this week. An “a-ha!” moment, if you will. Looking more closely at pictures online led me to suspect that the TWSBI I bought last January as an “Emerald” special edition may, in fact, be the older “Turquoise” model …

mnmlscholar 12/2/20 mnmlscholar 12/2/20

[Un]shaken, not stirred

Stick with what brings you joy. Together, this week is another collection of cool-toned colors: mellow blues, teals, and earth tones. Half are EF nibs. With so many TWSBIs, these combinations should last me a little while. Having more ink in pens is timely considering the increased bookkeeping I process at the interchange of marking periods.

mnmlscholar 11/28/20 mnmlscholar 11/28/20

Three strikes make a turkey

I worked in three modes this week. First, I taught in person Monday and Tuesday. This involved the usual analog bookkeeping and lesson planning. My electronic work was in our school learning management system (LMS), and in my virtual pacing guide.