by P. M. Starr | Jan 7, 2025 | Aesthetics & Style, Black, Famous Pens and Pleasure Writing, Markers, My Collection, Philosophy, Red, Sharpie, Under $10
Here we are, January 2025, diving into another year and another term of profoundly absurd not-greatness. In “honor” or just plain recognition of that fact, I picked up some fresh Sharpies. I mean … it’s not ALL bad, signing your name BOLDLY...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 22, 2024 | Fountain Pens, My Experience, paper, Parker, Pink, Taccia
Discovered the pleasure of bringing a fountain pen with me on walk to the library, but no notebook. Relying instead on those tiny thin wafers of white paper, cramming as many pretty words as I could copy from a book of poetry I thought would make me want to barf...
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 26, 2023 | Analog Hacks, Challenges, Highlighters, My Experience, paper, Philosophy, Technology
Follow-up on filling in this year’s taxes (technically last year’s taxes) by hand rather than entering all the numbers on the PDF files via computer and Acrobat: It is refreshing and super-helpful working with actual sheets of paper and entering numbers...
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...
