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

A growing fondness of multitaskers

I’ve been watching the reboot of Alton Brown’s Good Eats this past week. Brown’s distaste for unitaskers resonates with me. I identify with the lack of patience he has for a cooking tool that only has one use. My focus this week, though, has been thinking through how I use unitasker and multitasker nibs.

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.