How Do You Use Your...Traveler’s* Notebook? It might come as a surprise to some, but I am not an organized person. At all, actually. I know people who are naturally organized (my wife springs to mind), but I’m
Baltimore Pen Show Recap - 2019 And just like that, the pen show season is underway! The Baltimore Pen Show was this past weekend, and I’m still reeling from the great time that I had. Well organized, full
How Do You Use Your...Hippo Noto? One of my favorite things about pen meetups and shows is seeing how everyone uses different notebooks. You’ll see pocket notebooks, big pads of paper, and all manner of places to write
Points of Interest: Work Trip Edition Nothing like a work trip to totally throw off any plans you have. I like work travel, I really do, but the unpredicatability of what your day to day is going to look
Points of Interest: Fire on Fire Edition It's happened: Brad Dowdy from the Pen Addict has finally released his first ink collaboration with Robert Oster, and it's called Fire on Fire. As expected, people went nuts for it, myself included.
Points of Interest: InCoWriMo Edition It's InCoWriMo time again! I've written in the past about my experiences doing InCoWriMo, so I won't be writing about it this year. I won't be going for the every day challenge this
Points of Interest - Escape from Wisconsin Edition Sunday night I flew to Chicago and then drove to Milwaukee for what was supposed to be a quick day of meetings, with a flight home on Tuesday afternoon. Instead, it turns out
Points of Interest: 1/12 - 1/18 Null Refill: A synthetic paper for ink lovers - The Fude FanI’m incredibly jealous of anyone who gets easy access to Japan’s vibrant stationery market. Even with the strides that have
Paper Let’s Talk About Tomoe River In August of 2017, I wrote a blog post talking about how I wanted to highlight some of the wild, wacky, and amazing types of paper that can be found out in the
Points of Interest: 1/5 - 1/11 It’s Philadelphia Pen Show weekend! Pictures are already starting to fly across Instagram, and it looks like it’s going to be a great weekend. I won’t be in attendance, so
Pen Review: Platinum Procyon Back at the DC Pen Show, Platinum’s distributor in the US had a new pen to show off: the Platinum Procyon. You couldn’t buy it just yet, but it was there
Weekly Roundup: 12/31 - 1/4 I love going through what others found interesting in their browsing around the web. Even if I follow the majority of the same sites as someone else, their commentary or choice of links
2019 Creative Goals First things first. If you haven’t been listening to the Make Do Podcast, you should go fix that. It’s a fantastic, positive look at creativity and the feelings and processes around
2018 - An Inky Year in Review As the end of the year starts to draw near, I always enjoy looking back at some of the things that happened in the year past. And while there were a bunch of
Paper The Paper Series: Whitelines Pad Review I live my digital and analog lives almost entirely separately. I’ve been a technology guy since I built my first computer when I was 13, and my love of stationery has only
“How Do I Get Started Running?” “Hey Joseph, how do you get in to running?”I hear that question a lot. It’s certainly no secret that I’m a bit of a runner these days. I’ve run
DC Pen Show 2018 Recap Have I really been to three DC Pen Shows now?! I can still remember the overwhelming feeling of walking it to the old hotel and seeing rows and rows of pen vendors in
Pelikan Edelstein Olivine Review Each year since 2012, Pelikan has released a new ink of the year for the Edelstein line of inks. Last year was Smoky Quartz, the year before was Aquamarine, and this year’s
Paper The Paper Series: Life Airmail Letter Pad Review “What was that paper you used in your last letter?!” was a common refrain over InCoWriMo. As I mentioned in my post about the month, my primary paper for letter writing in February
Paperblanks Holographic Mini Notebook Review I have a confession to make. I stereotype notebooks, and it can make me overlook really good products that are out in the market. I tend to focus on Japanese-made products, because their
journaling My Hobonichi Setup A few different people have asked me how I’m using my Hobonichi Planner lately, so I thought it might finally be time for a blog post about it. I got my Hobonichi
Paper The Paper Series: Delfonics Rollbahn Memo Pad Review I have a real soft spot for spiral notebooks. There’s something so satisfying about watching the notebook get thinner and thinner as I tear pages out to leave notes around or toss
Paper The Paper Series: Write Correspondence Pad Review When a craftsman is proud of what they made, it shows in the product. So when Chris Rothe from Write Notepads showed up at the BWI Pen Show excited to unveil a new
The Paper Series: Eccolo Penny for Your Thoughts Notebook I have used a lot of pocket notebooks. But most of the time, being a fountain pen enthusiast and a pocket notebook enthusiast is inherently at odds with itself. A pocket notebook needs
Baltimore Pen Show 2018 Recap The Baltimore Pen Show was this past weekend, and I officially have a favorite pen show. Over the past few years, I’ve hit a decent number of pen shows on the East
