2011 Raleigh Pen Show Recap — Day 2

So, I’ve been working on this blog post for three hours now, typing and deleting, typing and deleting, and typing and deleting some more. But, you know what? I think this really is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words:     …………………… The three pens in… Continue reading

2011 Raleigh Pen Show Recap – Day 1

There aren’t a lot of places to buy fountain pens where I live, so when the Raleigh Pen Show rolls around each year Chad and I make a point to go. We ended up double-booking that weekend this year, though, so for a while it didn’t look like we’d be… Continue reading

Why VS Naipaul Doesn’t Bother Me

Earlier today my friend Gina Penn tweeted a link to an article in the London Evening Standard about former Booker Prize winning author VS Naipaul’s comments that women writers are “unequal” to him due to their “sentimentality, the narrow view of the world”. I was saddened to read Naipaul’s authorized… Continue reading