The Leadhead's Pencil Blog

This was the second year Janet and I made the trip to the Baltimore Pen Show. It was quite the whirlwind trip, driving out on Friday and bac...

"You should go to Philly." This was the year I decided I’d heard this just too many times, from just too many people, who all ha...

It feels good to be home. As it is every year, I’ve been running around across pretty big chunks of the country all year long, meeting peo...

"Why do you want to go there ?" When I heard that in response to my comment that I was going to the Michigan Pen Show, I knew th...

As I’m sitting here, at 6:00 in the morning getting ready to make the long drive back to Ohio, I’m suddenly finding it difficult to describe...

Yesterday, Janet and I loaded up the car with all things pen and pencil and made our annual pilgrimage to the "DC Supershow" in Wa...

I asked Terry Mawhorter if the weather is always this nice in Raleigh or if they just turned it on because there's a pen show in town.  ...

Sunbury, Ohio is a painfully cute little town very near Westerville, Ohio, where I grew up.  As a kid, back when Westerville was a sleepy, i...

I've always had a soft spot for the Chicago Pen Show.  It was the second pen show I attended more than ten years ago (second after the O...

Before this last weekend, neither Janet nor I had ever been to Baltimore, but we received a great introduction to the city when we decided t...