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 | 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 | 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 | 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 12, 2023 | Brown, Diamine, Green, Grey, Ink, My Colors, My Experience, Philosophy, Problems, Purple, Red, Taccia, Wisdom
Impermanence: No Ink Lasts Forever Entering the dry part of summer as the days get shorter, my mom is surviving so many of the worst parts (chemo, Whipple surgery) of one of the worst kinds of cancer (pancreatic), but aging and fading fast in some ways I did not...
by P. M. Starr | Jul 13, 2023 | Philosophy, Wisdom
Scrolling through “Slaysian” Tina Leung’s gorgeous instagram feed, her repost of Library Mindset’s 40 Cheat Codes I Wish I Knew At 20 caught my eye. Of course, the things related to writing and doing things the old-fashioned way jumped out at me the most....
