The Cookie Monster of Pens
I’m not done with any segment of the fountain pen market, but the recent price increases are concerning and exhausting.
12 Pen Person Questions
It’s my turn to answer the 12 Pen Person questions from Lisa (Olive Octopus Ink).
True motivations, revisited
I revisit an old post from Anthony Newman’s blog to discuss motivations. Is it even possible to know what is an intrinsic motivation to acquire a pen, and what is peer modeling, or peer pressure?
Minimalism by any other name
I haven’t yet found the right word to describe my approach to collecting. It’s more of a vibe than principle.
Tariffs, a vibe
Many people wrote about going on a buying hiatus, or starting a low buy. I don’t know if people will actually slow down or stop buying, but the vibe has definitely soured.
What are we looking for?
What are we looking for? I am infinitely curious about what collecting reveals about the humans we are, what makes us feel deeply the way nothing else can. For this post, I discuss some broad categories of experience that lead us to collect writing instruments.
10 things I’m grateful for, the fountain pen edition
This is a simple gratitude post, featuring ten fountain pen things I’m grateful for.
Whimsy is healing
Academia is not the only field where one is expected to perform seriousness. Whimsy gets a bad rap in quite a few industries. But my stationery habit does not make me bad at my job, and I am prepared to stick a sticker on that hill.
The Soft Long Story
I care about story and intricacy, and the pleasure of using an older technology. Writing itself is a very old technology, but it, too, is new in the grand scheme of things.