Fountain Pen Day

 Happy Fountain Pen Day! Today we honor the writing instrument as old as writing itself.  Even in the digital age of today, fountain pens flourish as a tool of the creative and the artistic.  I myself am neither, yet I have long enjoyed fountain pens.  I bought my first serious pen as a treat upon finishing grad school.  At some forgotten Detroit-area department store in 1992, I bought a Mont Blanc Meisterstuck 146 which has served me well ever since and remains my favorite pen.  I'm not a serious collector of fountain pens; I own only a handful of nice ones.  I can somehow resist the urge to go on a spending spree when I visit the famed Fountain Pen Hospital in New York City and peruse the vast displays of alluring pens.  But I do use the few I own whenever I can.  (Certain writing situations, especially in my work, do not lend themselves to fountain pen use.) Instead of pens, I do collect inks of all sorts and colors.  By far my favorite is Noodler's Ink.  And in my trusty Mont Blanc, with dozens of vivid colors to choose from, I always use Noodler's Black, a "bulletproof" ink that resists the effects of time and forgers to preserve forever whatever I write.

Mont Blan Meisterstuck and Noodler's ink