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This past Tuesday, November 11th, 2025, was Pen Boutique's 21st Anniversary, and we had a wonderful celebration that included most of our team and a beautiful and diverse cross section of our loca...

Pilot pens are renowned throughout the fountain pen community for their smooth and consistent nibs, and that goes for the steel nib pens just as much as the gold nib ones. I've written a lot about...

If you know me, you know how much I love details. In fact, I'm so focused on small details that I'm usually more aware of them than I am the big picture.  If I visit a large awe-inspiring monument,...

"Go #30 Or Go Home"  I'm not really a sticker person, but I do love Pilot, so when I saw that the Pilot team was giving out stickers at the 2024 Washington DC Fountain Pen Supershow, I had to choos...

Happy Autumn!  Here in Maryland, we are on the cusp of fall; the trees are still mostly green and the weather is mild, but I feel the days getting shorter and shorter, and a crisp chill in the morn...

The Visconti Homo Sapiens is an iconic giant, omnipresent in discussions of fountain pen lovers' "holy grail" wishlist pens, and has reached an elevated status, grouping it with other extremely wel...

One of my all-time favorite blog article topics is Sailor fountain pens. Even before I bought Sailors of my own, I loved taking photos of Sailors and writing about what makes each one special and u...

Fountain pens can be made from a wide variety of things, including resin, ABS plastic, and celluloid; metals like silver, gold, brass, copper, stainless steel, titanium, and aluminum; and even mate...

As you've probably noticed if you've read my blog for any length of time, I'm a big fan of Pilot pens. Over a third of the pens in my personal collection are Pilots, and I know I can always rely on...