Pens

I'm a pen lover. I like beautiful writing instruments. They don't have to be pretty, they don't have to be expensive, but they have to write beautifully.
Unfortunately, champagne tastes and a budweiser budget lead to fewer choices. But fortunately, I have some nice inexpensive fountain pens, and most especially, a whole bunch of very cheap, and relatively nice disposable ones. Pilot makes a pen they call "Varsity", running $2-3 a pen: it writes smoothly, comes in a delightful range of colours, and is now available (in a more restricted range of colours) at Staples, one of the better local office supply stores.
But the delightful part about all of this is that a few days ago I walked into the back room: Boo ducked down so that I wouldn't see what she was doing. I persuaded her to let me see, and with some trepidation she pulled out one of my disposable pens: she was using it to do one of her drawings. I could be mad -- "That's one of my special pens!!!" but especially now they are available locally,
I had to smile.

The only downside is that I'm left handed, and she is not, so it is harder for me to demonstrate to her how to hold the pen at the appropriate angle to the paper. And so that is now LOML's job (who also likes appropriating my pens:-)

Yours, delighted that I've inspired a six year old to want to use a fountain pen,
N.