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Another set of currently inked pens, with five new inks, also available in the shop as a set of samples, for a limited time (i.e. until they run out). I am hoping to do these sample sets more regularly...

This past week we had a Cursive Writing Evening at the shop. How fun! We had a little package for each participant with two styles of cursive writing, along with samples for them to pick from to write...

After many years, we have finally addressed a deficiency in our book selection. It is one of many, of course, but this one seems especially egregious because Lynda Barry is a creative hero of mine.

We ...

These days, Naomi, our intrepid 6-year-old middle child, is learning cursive writing, and so I’m back into it as well. What fun!

We have broken out our seyes ruled notebooks and sharpened our pencils a...

Chicken made it out of the emergency vet, thank goodness, and several thousands of dollars and several small vials of Jon’s tears later. I have visions of Jon harvesting his tears and applying them on...

I continue to enjoy my days at the library, crying the occasional tear while wondering how Junia is doing.

The library system is heaving itself back to life, I hear, and me and Caleb have been giving e...

Some time ago we got in several varieties of the new Octopus Ink line. I greeted them with enthusiasm! But then they sort of got stacked somewhere in the abyss of my office closet, and I forgot about t...

Life continues on, as it does. I’m writing this from a public library, that great institution of free books and free Wifi and the long line up to the bathroom.

Halfway through January, Junia had her st...

Journaling continues to be a balm for life, a way to record those sacred moments, a stirring up of the mundane into something a little more interesting, something to keep the itchy fingers busy.

I hope...

It has been a week!

Chicken had to go to the emergency vet for another blockage in his wee wee. He had one several years ago and it was terrible, and it was just as terrible this time around. They make...