The holiday shopping season is officially underway and Link Love reflects the arrival of all things holiday-related: from “The Child” hot cocoa to snowflake Field Notes. If you need a holiday idea, a video to make you smile or shipping information, hop down to the Holiday-related section. I have one more week of teaching before…
By the time this post goes live, we will have recorded the annual Pen Addict Podcast Gift Guide episode. (It actually went live yesterday but in the haze of post-recording, I completely forgot to post Link Love. Oh, the shame!) I’ve lost track of how many years I’ve been invited to participate in this event…
I cannot believe we are a week away from Thanksgiving here in the US. I feel like I was at the Baltimore Pen Show just a few weeks ago and, at the same time, I feel like 2020 has gone on for years. This means it’s the start of Gift Guide season in the blogosphere.…
2020 continues to provide a rollercoaster of ups and downs. Whatever your stance on American politics, the fact that the election is over and, as far as I can tell, a decision has been reached without violence, has provided everyone with a sense of relief. But 2020 is a gift that just keeps on giving.…
Regardless of where you live, you probably have an actual or emotional hangover from the US presidential election. As of this post, the results are not conclusive and the results are too close to call. As a result, the stress and strain of this year continues to linger. The fact that the US election results…
This week, Link Love is so full visuals that I urge you to click on the links just to see the photos, illustrations and graphics. I promise you it will be worth it. The images below are just a taste of the amazing things you’ll see if you CLICK through. It’s from the Creative Boom’s…
This weekend, Bob and I watched a film called Booksellers which is a documentary film about the antiquarian book dealers and the antiquarian book world. Amusingly, there are a lot of parallels between the book world and the pen world. So much of the book world has changed in the last 20 years as a…
