I'm a self-admitted fanatic when it comes to pens and writing utensils of pretty much any sort. I have lusted after fountain pens for a long time, and wanted to try and start using one for my day to ...

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, ...

Picked up a Lamy Safari as my first fountain pen, loaded up the cartridge and wrote with it a bit, but honestly, it feels like a ballpoint. I'm also underwhelmed by the fact that the next time I went ...

For the past two years, during the twilight of my academic career, I have become a devotee of the fountain pen, often pondering this seemingly retro act of putting pen to paper. Composing again by ...