“And fingers yearn for pen, pen for paper. A moment... and verses freely flow.”
- Alexander Pushkin

I am grateful for fountain pens.

I rediscovered fountain pens when looking for an alternative to the disposable plastic ballpoint pens I was…

I am grateful for my journal. After a few false starts over the course of my life, last November I began a daily journal. I am now on my sixth journal having filled more than 800 pages with handwritten…

I guess I should have known it was going to happen. A day would dawn when, in spite of whatever topic I was trying to write about, the words just wouldn't flow. I just didn't think it would happen so…

My recollection of learning how to write by hand is vague. I'm not sure if we had workbooks or gestetnered sheets we followed but suspect that the teacher simply modeled each letter on the chalkboard and we repeatedly copied them…

A pen has no spellcheck function but I think it's journaling. As a young boy I started writing in a notebook for something other than what was required in school. Much like school, the effort and outcome was a little…

Thinking of ways to develop the habit of regular blogging, I decided to challenge myself to post every day for thirty days. The thirty day challenge is not an original idea. It is reported to be a method of ingraining…