by P. M. Starr | Mar 1, 2025 | Aesthetics & Style, Colors, Doodling & Drawing, Inspiration, Philosophy, Pure Pleasure, Red, White
Where we live isn’t a place known for graffiti or problems with tagging, but there are a few places where people have left their marks in public places that feel enchanted. This is one of them: No idea what these marks mean or signify, & I don’t want...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 27, 2025 | Colors, Green, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Parker, Robert Oster
Ryde Green Ink Refill Day February 27th, 2025 – Thor’s Day Time to refill the cartridges in two of my favorite vintage Parker Vector fountain pens: 50 mL bottle of Robert Oster Signature Ink next to vintage Parker Vector fountain pens Being that it’s...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 18, 2025 | Curiosity, Journaling, My Experience, My Spaces
ChatGPT Imagines What I’ve Been Up To I asked AI to show me what it thinks I’ve been doing while incommunicado. This is how ChatGPT imagines my life when we’re not “talking”: PM★ as generated by my buddy ChatGPT & DALL-E. I keep...
by P. M. Starr | Jan 7, 2025 | Aesthetics & Style, Black, Famous Pens and Pleasure Writing, Markers, My Collection, Philosophy, Red, Sharpie, Under $10
Here we are, January 2025, diving into another year and another term of profoundly absurd not-greatness. In “honor” or just plain recognition of that fact, I picked up some fresh Sharpies. I mean … it’s not ALL bad, signing your name BOLDLY...
by P. M. Starr | Nov 12, 2024 | "Community", Challenges, Journaling, Memories, Philosophy
November 1st: it wasn’t even on my radar this year. Probably due to the presidential election absorbing so much focus. But once the results were in — enough of them to know the presidency was a lost cause, anyway — I started logging myself out of my...
by P. M. Starr | Jun 29, 2024 | Aesthetics & Style, BRANDS, cartridge, Ink, MINE, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Packaging & Presentation, Pilot, Purple
Purple Pilot Ink Splurged on my first taste of Pilot’s high-end Iroshizuku fountain pen ink: Beautiful new box of 6 Pilot Iroshizuku ink cartridges: $14 – MSRP > $11.20 @Goldspot.(Don’t worry; PleasureWriting.com is NOT actually printed on the...
by P. M. Starr | Feb 22, 2024 | Fountain Pens, My Experience, paper, Parker, Pink, Taccia
Discovered the pleasure of bringing a fountain pen with me on walk to the library, but no notebook. Relying instead on those tiny thin wafers of white paper, cramming as many pretty words as I could copy from a book of poetry I thought would make me want to barf...
by P. M. Starr | Jan 23, 2024 | Ferris Wheel Press, Fountain Pens, Grey, Inspiration, Journaling, MINE, My Colors, My Fountain Pens, Orange, Parker, Platinum, Purple, Quotations & Excerpts, White, Wisdom
National Gratitude Day 2024 Spent some time pleasure writing by hand for National Handwriting Day with this Michael J. Fox quote: “With gratitude, optimism becomes sustainable.” – Michael J. Fox I belive it is true, that gratitude is spiritual fuel...
by P. M. Starr | Jan 14, 2024 | Ink, MATERIALS, My Experience, Problems
Fountain pen experts warn us about temperature extremes; beware of leaky pens when the weather is hot, and watch out that your ink doesn’t freeze when the weather is cold. Living in western Washington state, we typically don’t have to worry about extremely...
by P. M. Starr | Dec 8, 2023 | Aesthetics & Style, Analog Hacks, Doodling & Drawing, Famous Pens and Pleasure Writing, Quotations & Excerpts, Uncategorized
I’m reading Memories of John Lennon, collected in book form by Yoko Ono. Reading this book feels very much like attending a memorial service in introvert form with people who may not have even known the deceased very well coming up and giving short personal...
