Happy #NationalHandwritingDay everyone!

As you might be aware, I have a slight obsession with fountain pens. As a young teenager I used to compose fantastic adventures in notebooks (instead of paying attention to my math class) and recount all of the strange dreams I had.  This led to the procurement of my first fountain pen; a cheap craft store Manuscript brand in classic black plastic with gold colored accents.  I still have it to this day and it writes like butter from almost 20 years of use.

In this last year my interests were renewed when I strolled past a Montblanc ad for the Heritage Rouge et Noir.  The image of a man in a fine suit, pen in hand towered over me and I was in awe.  I mean, who couldn’t resist a pen with a snake on it!

Editor’s note (Feb 2): That’s Hugh Jackman, folks.  (link to original ad – imagine this on the side of a storefront!)

A week later I was deep in the rabbit hole of technical specifications.  There seemed to be an endless supply of designs and filling systems but none were as complex and infamously complicated as the Sheaffer Snorkel.  Needless to say, I had to have one.  Fun fact: The Snorkel pen was the inspiration behind the fascination of cartoon characters using them as Super Soakers filled with ink.  Snorkel pens are the only fountain pens capable of this.

For more information about the Sheaffer Snorkel pen visit: Vacumania’s page.

You don’t have to have a schfancy fountain pen to participate in the snail mail revolution.  You ‘re not required to have white linen stationary or perfect penmanship (although I can attest that writing regularly will help with this!).  I still compose letters to my friends, send birthday and thank you cards.  Disconnect from the rush of this technologically driven society and pen a simple note or the next novel.

Write on friends!

~*Twigg*~