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 | 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 | 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...
