Several years ago, entirely by accident, Jesi and I started a tradition of wearing matching striped dresses at pen shows, regardless of which tables we are working at. At the Dallas Pen Show was quite a delight because one of our co-workers at the Dromgoole’s table, Jessica, came prepared in her own stripey shirt and…
I’m not busy, I just do lots of things. I type this as I think of my urge to slow down and be more mindful about my time. It’s all too easy to obsess about all the things. I want to stop answering the question, “How are you doing?” with the all-too-common “I’ve been so…
Do you ever find a book (or two or three) that you just don’t get into? Do you DNF (did not finish) it or do you slog through it? Do you feel like you’ve lost your reading mojo? That’s been me for the past month or so. No book mojo. Every book I picked up…
It has started to cool here in Kansas City. Our mornings have a slight chill in the air and the evenings are cool which means on September 1, I made my first pot of pumpkin spice coffee. I started making spice tea in the evenings and I started knitting a new wooly sweater. I sest…
I’ve been back from the San Francisco Pen Show for one day and I am definitely fatigued from the journey. Three long days of selling and teaching with full days of travel on each leave me feeling absolutely frazzled. The experience of the show, though, teaching several classes and seminars, working at the Vanness Pen…
Tomorrow, I head to San Francisco for the SF Pen Show and I’m both excited and a little terrified. I’ll be teaching two classes and hosting a seminar for left-handed fountain pen users plus working at the Vanness Pen Shop booth and trying to visit and explore and participate on some level. But the more…
This week, the Desk HQ has been filled with the sounds of crickets (and a few cicadas) and the sounds of school buses and kids on the playground (yep, Desk HQ is situated across the street from an elementary school). What do the sounds mean? It’s back-to-school time and the summer is coming to an…
