One of my New Year's Resolutions was to try to finish at least two poems and one short story a month. I've pretty much broken all m...

Bach *and* chocolate?? Aw, Amazon, you shouldn't have... (OK, so I *did* have to pay for the privilege. Still...)

(I'll get back to real blog posts eventually, I swear. I spent the early part of this week sick (curled up on the couch watching the fi...

OK, so this is an Update Just to Update (UJTU) in disguise... But if I may say so, glass top coffee tables could have been designed with cl...

Brought to you in part by three good fountain pens... Continuing my striving toward more positive thinking: this is a concept that I believ...

You'll have to pardon the cell phone photos...my camera wasn't available. I believe I've previously mentioned my fondness for...

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Day! Did you receive any pen/pencil/typewriter related gifts? Interesting books? Music? Fun t...

(And if I may state right up front: I have very mixed feelings about using "journal" as a verb...) As mentioned in some prev...

Mini-review: I just finished off a Clairfontaine notebook I'd been using as a journal (in pencil, for those keeping score at home), and ...

I'm not doing NaNo this year, for a variety of reasons.  But this is the first time in a very, very long time I've not taken part, ...