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 | 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 15, 2023 | Aesthetics & Style, Memories, My Experience, paper
NOTE: this post goes off the rails a little / might sound kind of crazy due to stress, my creative-brain being very plugged-in, and listening to / watching The Real History of Secret Societies, The Agency: A History of the CIA, and the news these days. I’m not...
by P. M. Starr | Aug 22, 2023 | paper, Philosophy, Problems
A Notebook for Each Purpose vs ONE Notebook for EVERYTHING I loved seeing this post from DeAnna Rose about how ideally she’d keep all of the things separate in their own task-specific notebooks, but gave up and is now embracing the practical realities of...
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...
by P. M. Starr | Jul 21, 2023 | Buying & Browsing, My Experience, paper, Under $20
The closest grocery store to my mom’s house has a kind of boutique vibe to it with lots of extras and giftable specialty-type items. It’s the kind of store you want to browse while you savor all of the eye candy (on top of the all the literal candy). Like...
