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M y experience with Waterman fountain pens is limited. I own only one, and it isn’t a pen I use too frequently, earning a place in my collec...

A couple of years back when I was spending a summer here at the beach, I got a juice notion in my head and came home one day with the monst...

C ould just be me, or maybe I’m reading it wrong, but in the past several days the air feels a little different here along the coast in cent...

T wo words in a New York Times review by Elizabeth Judd prompted me to buy Sara Gruen’s 2007 novel, Water for Elephants . ‘On our first da...

F ocus today is on another fountain pen outside the circle of names most commonly associated with writing instruments. We all know the name ...

F lashes of former days, pangs of nostalgia and thoughts of then… Rainy Season Tokyo— An all day pall of pounding rain. The streets of Sh...

B ack fiddling with fountain pens, still not done with the checking out of my friend’s collection. I’ve had eyes and hands on one today that...