Every morning during baseball season around 6:15 a.m., after driving to Midtown from Manalapan, N.J., Petruccio takes a cup of coffee and sketches a one-page illustration summarizing the previous night’s game. The drawings are topped with tabloid-like headlines and accompanied with short summaries scribbled in ballpoint pen. Sometimes, they’re standard portraits. (read more…) (via WSJ.com)

Franklin Covey is stocking a wide selection of Orla Kiely notebooks and stationery. I particularly like this set of floral-themese  Layflat Notebooks. Each book is 7.25×10, contain 80 lined pages and is designed to lay flat for ase of use. Pretty and useful. Lovely. $13.95/set of two. (via FranklinCovey)

Finally, a reason to have lots of notebooks! Use each notebook for specialized tasks. The example given is for writers to keep three separate notebooks: one for Morning Pages, one for sketching out story ideas and a third that’s portable for catching ideas on the go. I have divided my writings to my day planner,…