The pleasures and limitations of sharpening pencils with knives, DIGging into some new pencil products – and one very old one -- work notebooks, and memorable temp jobs.

Nuro

Kirkland Signature Logo T-Shirt

Normcore

Wet and gushy

Everyday Ichiro

Pilot Metropolitan

Lamy Safari

TWSBI

Kaweco

Kaweco Frosted Coconut Ballpoint

Pen Addict Top Five

What's on Adam's Desk

How to Write One Song

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain