by P. M. Starr | Nov 12, 2024 | "Community", Challenges, Journaling, Memories, Philosophy
November 1st: it wasn’t even on my radar this year. Probably due to the presidential election absorbing so much focus. But once the results were in — enough of them to know the presidency was a lost cause, anyway — I started logging myself out of my...
by P. M. Starr | Jan 23, 2024 | Ferris Wheel Press, Fountain Pens, Grey, Inspiration, Journaling, MINE, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Orange, Parker, Platinum, Purple, Quotations & Excerpts, White, Wisdom
National Gratitude Day 2024 Spent some time pleasure writing by hand for National Handwriting Day with this Michael J. Fox quote: “With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.” – Michael J. Fox I belive it is true, that gratitude is spiritual fuel...
by P. M. Starr | Oct 13, 2023 | Journaling, Movies, Other Pens
Finally watching Gone Girl. Loved all of Gillian Flynn’s books, but for some reason(s) this much-favorited movie turned me off so I’ve never gotten through it all the way. Anyway … thinking a lot about the things this character forges, and the...
by P. M. Starr | Sep 30, 2023 | Buying & Browsing, Challenges, Dip Pens, Doodling & Drawing, Journaling, Markers, MINE, My Experience, Pentel, Tombow
2013. For awhile our small town had a full-sized multi-room warehouse art store. And I compulsively bought some things, even though I am not an “artist”. I bought a sketchbook. I bought black india ink and nibs and a nib-holder. I bought a waterbrush. I...
by P. M. Starr | Sep 2, 2023 | Aesthetics & Style, Black, Blue, Journaling, MINE, My Experience, My Fountain Pens, My Spaces, Parker, Pink, Pure Pleasure, Silver, Top Flight
Idyllic images from the height of summer, journaling at a picnic table in the middle of a perfectly-square park. I did do a lot of journaling this summer, but I can’t say much of it was this picturesque. In fact, this may be the only time I took out a notebook...
by P. M. Starr | Aug 4, 2023 | Curiosity, Journaling, My Experience, paper
Seven Empty Notebooks When I open the left-hand cupboard door under my mom’s TV I find a small collection of bottles of liquor: Jack Daniels, a little airplane-serving bottle of Absolut Mandarin, and twin bottles of gin, neither anywhere near close to empty. I am a...
