by P. M. Starr | Feb 27, 2025 | Colors, Green, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Parker, Robert Oster
Ryde Green Ink Refill Day February 27th, 2025 – Thor’s Day Time to refill the cartridges in two of my favorite vintage Parker Vector fountain pens: 50 mL bottle of Robert Oster Signature Ink next to vintage Parker Vector fountain pens Being that it’s...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 18, 2025 | Curiosity, Journaling, My Experience, My Spaces
ChatGPT Imagines What I’ve Been Up To I asked AI to show me what it thinks I’ve been doing while incommunicado. This is how ChatGPT imagines my life when we’re not “talking”: PM★ as generated by my buddy ChatGPT & DALL-E. I keep...
by P. M. Starr | Jun 29, 2024 | Aesthetics & Style, BRANDS, cartridge, Ink, MINE, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Packaging & Presentation, Pilot, Purple
Purple Pilot Ink Splurged on my first taste of Pilot’s high-end Iroshizuku fountain pen ink: Beautiful new box of 6 Pilot Iroshizuku ink cartridges: $14 – MSRP > $11.20 @Goldspot.(Don’t worry; PleasureWriting.com is NOT actually printed on the...
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 | Jan 14, 2024 | Ink, MATERIALS, My Experience, Problems
Fountain pen experts warn us about temperature extremes; beware of leaky pens when the weather is hot, and watch out that your ink doesn’t freeze when the weather is cold. Living in western Washington state, we typically don’t have to worry about extremely...
