One of my local pen shops ran an outdoors pen sale. The tables were spaced out to encourage proper physical distancing. A handful of people from my local pen group attended.

I offered to run a pen cleaning station during the event. Folks would drop their pens off with me to be cleaned while they shopped and chatted. How great would it be to pick up a new bottle of ink and have your pen cleaned and ready to be inked right away? We called it a “pen spa.”

Sharing is caring, so the saying goes. Sharing, in the world of fountain pens is also daring.

A common joke amongst my pen friends is that our blood pressure spikes when someone at work or the local café asks to “borrow a pen real quick.”