Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve asked the big questions – does it write smoothly, gliding across the page and releasing ink evenly? How does it feel to hold ...

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, ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that serious, but if ...

I went shopping for a stylus the other day after deciding to go paperless and give up writing the old-fashioned way on a paper notebook. Many of my fellow journos still lug around the notepads that ...

Wetting a fountain pen to compose a thank-you note is a grand way to express gratitude for a holiday gift, yet we often don’t give a thought to what happens when ink moves from pen to paper. But for a ...

The Boston Pen People, a group of fountain pen enthusiasts, gathers quarterly to commune, write and celebrate the historical significance and practical benefits of their beloved writing instruments.