Tea with a new Pelikan. Are these pictures too weird? Have I mentioned I'm half Irish, or rather, half Irish American? Yes, an Irish-Chicana. My mom was (mostly) Irish, her father a loyal member of the Friendly Sons of St.…
Pen Review: Visconti Van Gogh Sunflowers
I was recently able to try a Visconti Van Gogh. I realize that this is not a new to the market pen, but I had held off in purchasing a Visconti because of the brand's reputation for not having consistently…
First Fountain Pen on BBC’s The Repair Shop
It's been a hard few years. Life has been stressful on a personal and global level: deaths, illness, pandemic, tenure files, surgeries, and general political madness leave me feeling sometimes like the world is on fire. None of us should…