Fountain Pen on Parchment Zen and the Art of Pen on Paper

I’d like to make a case for The Pen Age. That’s right, The Pen (as in ballpoint) Age. In these days of rabid use of laptops, cell phones, faxes and pagers, when I cruise the aisles of Office Max or Staples, I’m not magnetically drawn to the shelves of high-tech gadgets. Far from it – ...

Along with the slimy, moldy, miserable deluges and heavy gray skies, my spirit for writing, or more precisely, my creative spark, my Zen god, my splinter under the fingernail sprint, have all found a dark corner of their own to curl into. I was going to write a few weeks ago about how to find ...