It’s only Wednesday and already this week has been an adventure. Monday was the Monday of all Mondays and deserves no more acknowledgement than that. Tuesday, however, I got to see one of my favorite authors speak. John Scalzi was in town to promote his new book Monsters of Ohio. He is very fun to…
Many of our friends mourned the passing of the Sir Patrick Stewart this week. He was a kind man (so says one of my pals who met him at PlanetCon in KC a few years ago), a talented actor and the embodiment of role he played as Cpt. Jean-Luc Picard. I am not usually affected…
I try to keep my introductions to Link Love pen or at least pen-adjacent but this week, I need to address the Meta-sized elephant in the room. There is a lot of panic (myself included) swirling around about Meta’s change in policies especially for anyone with a business account (that would be me) and the…
I’m still in recovery mode from the On The Paper Trail LIVE event this week. I spent the last two days just trying to get on top of my to-do lists, rest a little bit and give those kitties all the love they missed while we were away. I guess I just don’t bounce back…
Bob and I are headed to Nashville this weekend for the On The Paper Trail LIVE event. I am frantically packing and trying to get everything organized for our tables and the workshops I’ll be teaching. We can’t wait to see everyone at the event. Pens: Arrtx Acrylic Markers (via Jane Blundell Artist) Leonardo Momento…
This week was a very cartographical week. I found so many posts about maps. In an age when we interact with maps via our phones, car screens and such, that actually creating maps seems novel and a little subversive. Maps: Learning by Drawing (via Austin Kleon) Mapping Tariffs explores “the potential impacts of tariffs o……
The Dallas Pen Show was a great experience this year. Despite an extra day and a half of show which was tiring, the attendees, vendors and organizers were all a delight. Not only did people share their love of pens and stationery with us but also with each other. I’m always tickled to watch one…
