The popularity of journaling and letter writing is a big driver of the resurgence of more elegant writing instruments ...

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, ...

Fountain pens are the most personal of writing instruments. For a long time, fountain pens were the only type of pen available. When mass-produced ballpoint pens came along, however, most people opted ...

Andrew Samtoy, a 33-year-old Cleveland attorney, grew enamored with his father’s Cross and Parker pens while he was still a young boy growing up in San Diego. One day he visited a garage sale across ...

It’s totally tempting to use a fountain pen. These throwback writing utensils carry a promise of a slower time, when people had hours to write — and when the main writing tool wasn’t a $1,000 computer ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In a digital heavy world, pen and paper have never been more important. Perhaps only a decade ago, ...

Joel Blumberg was running a $75 million leather company when in 1992 he announced to his wife that he’d be going into the fountain pen business. She immediately wrote off the idea because she didn’t ...

There’s a different kind of comfort in things analog—like pen on paper, the feeling of leafing through pages, and fingers being able to brush over the strokes of words written on the page. The fact ...

In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen. There is no ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Erica Wiederlight has an unusual job. "No one believes it," she said. "Everyone's like, 'What do you mean you sell pens?'" She works for her father Terry and uncle Steve ...

Looking for a unique gift this holiday season—one that is sure to please and is equally appropriate for a man or a woman? Consider a fountain pen. With the variety of gorgeous writing instruments ...