Posts by Tim Hofmann
2018 Ohio Pen Show Recap– Day 1, Thursday.
Day One: Thursday Thursday I woke up singing “I been looking forward to this day…” It’s the Pen Show for real, and it’s starting today. Thursday is a calm day and it doesn’t get going until the afternoon really, so I took my kid to school (and maybe Babe to daycare, I don’t quite recall…)…
Read MorePens I’m Liking These Days ii – TWSBI Micarta with an Extra-Special Nib
A year or so ago I asked Richard Binder if he’d trade me coffee for a nib. He’s been a good customer of mine for a long time. He was happy to trade coffee for a nib, so I asked him to make me a 14kt Spencerian-modded nib– extra-fine with full flex. It took a…
Read MorePens I’m Liking These Days–Parker Jotter
Parker Jotter with crisp CI by Henry Dolin This is a new pen- My buddy Henry turned me on to it during one of our coffee shop pen geek-outs. I’d seen it at Staples and passed it by– I don’t need another cheap pen, who does? He had one at the shop and I wrote…
Read MoreThe Colossal Mistakes I Uncovered in 2013
here’s some writing I did in December 2013 (whoa.) I removed a couple sections that were never intended for public consumption. -th, 9/25/18 Harsh Lessons of Independence. Independence is an out-of-favor term. Interdependence is the thing these days. I get it. The line between interdependence and plain-old dependence can be functionally negligible. I learned this the…
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