Fountain pens are the most personal of writing instruments. For a long time, fountain pens were the only type of pen available. When mass-produced ballpoint pens came along, however, most people opted ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, ...

Andrew Samtoy, a 33-year-old Cleveland attorney, grew enamored with his father’s Cross and Parker pens while he was still a young boy growing up in San Diego. One day he visited a garage sale across ...

It’s totally tempting to use a fountain pen. These throwback writing utensils carry a promise of a slower time, when people had hours to write — and when the main writing tool wasn’t a $1,000 computer ...

Generally, the fountain pen is regarded as as outdated as the horse-drawn Zeppelin, but in upmarket circles it's still a symbol of luxury and status. Precision mechanical watches are still made for a ...

Joel Blumberg was running a $75 million leather company when in 1992 he announced to his wife that he’d be going into the fountain pen business. She immediately wrote off the idea because she didn’t ...

The act of writing civilized humanity. When we learned to take that which is indescribable and capture part of it in time in a permanent way, then transmit that to another person, commerce grew and ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In a digital heavy world, pen and paper have never been more important. Perhaps only a decade ago, ...

There’s a different kind of comfort in things analog—like pen on paper, the feeling of leafing through pages, and fingers being able to brush over the strokes of words written on the page. The fact ...

I'm not sure how happy Montblanc is going to be that the first report I have from their new boutique --relocated from the cavernous and slightly impersonal space it formerly occupied, on the corner of ...