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Spring is here—and Friday—and it’s that delightful brief interlude of cool mornings and warm afternoons. We continue along the path of life, with year end festivals and recitals and parties. I continu...

The Kaweco Al-Sport Piston was released several weeks ago and sold right out, and I’m so excited for this restock.

One of my favourite things to come from Kaweco in ages! Something that was once only d...

Two new notebooks for me and I’m loving it, of course.

I recently got the new Traveler’s Notebook special edition Tokyo cover, and it has rejuvenated my love of the whole TN system, after having procras...

These days, with the warmer weather, the sun slowly preheating the city, Chicken has been spending more and more time outside, and Tuna and I both are enjoying when he graces us with his presence. The...

Five years ago we visited The Superior Labor in Okayama, which was a completely surreal experience. We flew into Tokyo and then out into the mountains to visit and tour their factory and shop and to u...

I’m squeezing in another currently inked set just before the end of April! I can hardly believe I’ve made it. This set will be available for a limited time as a sample pack, while quantities last.

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There was some once-in-a-lifetime intragalactic phenomenon and here in Toronto it was too cloudy to see it. It looked possibly optimistic before the actual eclipse, the clouds clearing out of the way ...

What has my life come to? What am I doing with myself? The days and weeks and months and years are sliding through my fingers like water. Six years ago I acquired a cat because we lived in a factory w...

Junia is in preschool and adjusting well. Or, who knows! Junia starts crying and running for me every time I come to pick her up, like she’s being released from the gulag, but the reports from the sch...

The Traveler’s Notebook Stamp Caravan is coming to town, and we are so thrilled to be hosting them again. Traveler’s Company has a set of stamps with different designs and themes, and they send them a...