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Jan
28
If you missed it, you missed it!
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The Philadelphia Pen Show is over for 2009. Contrary to popular expectation, there was no snowstorm, flood, earthquake, not even a volcano. (In case you don’t know, this show is world famous for its weird weather.) It was a good show: busier than we had thought it might be, with lots of buzz and fun to be had.
Some spectacular bargains were available on pens all over the hall, both new and vintage. Going in with a desire to snag a potful of restorable vintage pens, I was as usual chained to my table and unable to seek out those pens. So I resorted to employing a truffle pig. A friend who was at the show, but had no table, tossed the whole ballroom and dug up a grand haul of Snorkels, “51”s, and other good things that will turn up betimes on our monthly Pen Show tray. My truffle pig also delivered into my clutches one pen that I simply cannot bring myself to part with, a BHR Waterman’s Ideal Nº 15S whose only flaw was minor discoloration…
Jan
28
Hi Pen Fans!
I’ve been awfully busy lately. There are many new items to announce, so I’ll get right to it.
The #76 is my newest model.
This will be available in three versions.
The Premier Edition, which is a limited edition of six….
Next up is a bulb filler version of the same pen….
And then the standard version…
Please click here to learn more about the #76…
Jan
26
Cursive a dying art in schools
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This just makes me really sad. I’m not that old, and we were able to balance writing time with everything else just fine in school along with computer time, PE, and science, and I came out of school far better educated than many kids today. In my opinion, learning cursive is as much about discipline, patience, and form, as much as it’s about “writing pretty.” Sure, we all type WAY more than we used to, but that’s hardly justification to kill off a tried and true practice of education from the past hundred years or more. This would only be fixing a symptom of the larger problem in education today.
Technology, new standards crowd cursive lessons
Third-graders in Michelle Webb’s Burnett Creek Elementary classroom were practicing how to form a lowercase f in cursive on Friday.
Determined faces sprinkled the room as the children wrote again and again — f, f, f — perfecting the “loop the loop” on top and bottom. Student teacher Allison Touloukian demonstrated the correct slant and curve on screen for the class as students practiced forming words.
Learning to write in script is a time-honored tradition. But in today’s time-starved classrooms, some around the country are questioning whether, given everything else vying for space in the curriculum and the increasing use of technology, teaching these children cursive is even necessary.
Jan
26
Gel Pens
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I’m not a big fan of gel pens in general. The points are usually far too large for my handwriting, but I must say that I have been enjoying Pilot Hi-Tec-C 0.25mm gel pens for some time now. I have found them to be wonderful for drawing and sketching in particular…
Jan
22
Shock, Horror!
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I am back from my painting workshop – it rocked!
But now for the shock: There was a lovely man in my workshop who also liked fountain pens! *Gasp!* A real, live person! Someone from outside of the internet! That liked fountain pens!
I know, I could hardly believe it myself.
So, it was lunch time, and we were standing around in a small group, chatting. Someone had asked me something about myself, and in my prattling on I threw the usual line in about collecting fountain pens. The nice man then asked me what my favourite brand was (at this point, I think I experienced a mild case of shock, because I don’t remember making much sense when I tried to explain that I liked Japanese pens). Then I asked him what his favourite brand was, and it was Montegrappa! (How wonderful to hear he liked something exotic, and didn’t just say Parker or Sheaffer!) I was all: “*Gasps!* I have a Montegrappa Micra!! What model do you have?! Is it an LE?!” (Plus he knew what the Micra was!!!)…