by P. M. Starr | Jul 28, 2025 | ballpoint, Blue, Doodling & Drawing, erasable, Journaling, Mead, Memories, MINE, My Colors, My Experience, My Writing, Other Pens, paper, Paper Mate, Red, Under $10
Taking pleasure in a red gimmicky ballpoint pen in 1986 in my junior high journal.
by P. M. Starr | Jun 30, 2025 | Brown, Bullet Journaling, Fountain Pens, Gold, Green, Influences, Inspiration, Journaling, Lamy, Lists, My Colors, My Experience, My Fountain Pens, My Spaces, Parker, Planning, Quotations & Excerpts, To-Do Lists, Wisdom
Today’s to-do list inspired by Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
by P. M. Starr | Feb 18, 2025 | Curiosity, Journaling, My Experience, My Spaces
I asked AI to show me what it thinks I’ve been doing while incommunicado.
by P. M. Starr | Feb 22, 2024 | Fountain Pens, My Experience, paper, Parker, Pink, Taccia
Writing on free ephemeral feathers of library paper instead of a proper notebook.
by P. M. Starr | Jan 14, 2024 | Ink, MATERIALS, My Experience, Problems
Cold weather worries for fountain pen lovers in the (normally-temperate) Pacific Northwest.
by P. M. Starr | Nov 3, 2023 | MINE, My Experience, Problems, Technology, Wisdom, Wishlist
Inspired by Fountain Pen Day, I made an account for pleasure writing on IG. Will I regret it?
by P. M. Starr | Oct 26, 2023 | Analog Hacks, Challenges, Highlighters, My Experience, paper, Philosophy, Technology
Highlighting, handwriting, and journaling to help through the ordeal of tax prep.
by P. M. Starr | Oct 15, 2023 | Aesthetics & Style, Memories, My Experience, paper
Rambling about three different kinds of government-issued forms: tests, tax forms and ballots.
by P. M. Starr | Sep 30, 2023 | Buying & Browsing, Challenges, Dip Pens, Doodling & Drawing, Journaling, Markers, MINE, My Experience, Pentel, Tombow
A more personal sad-sack dear-diary kind of entry than usual here.
by P. M. Starr | Sep 24, 2023 | "Community", Challenges, Doodling & Drawing, My Experience
Should we participate in a month-long drawing challenge for the pure pleasure and practice of it?
by P. M. Starr | Sep 2, 2023 | Aesthetics & Style, Black, Blue, Journaling, MINE, My Experience, My Fountain Pens, My Spaces, Parker, Pink, Pure Pleasure, Silver, Top Flight
Re-imagining a journaling session in a park on a picture-perfect summer day.
by P. M. Starr | Aug 12, 2023 | Brown, Diamine, Green, Grey, Ink, My Colors, My Experience, Philosophy, Problems, Purple, Red, Taccia, Wisdom
Fearing how the levels of ink in the bottles gets lower and lower.
by P. M. Starr | Aug 4, 2023 | Curiosity, Journaling, My Experience, paper
The mysteries in my mom’s unwritten notes and hidden diaries.