Is it strange to have a decade-long love affair with a particular vintage of a pencil? So it is for me and the Retro 1951 brand of mechanical pencil. This gem is the perfect companion for scratching out a grocery list to mapping out a grant proposal plan.
Is it strange to have a decade-long love affair with a particular vintage of a pencil? So it is for me and the Retro 1951 brand of mechanical pencil. This gem is the perfect companion for scratching out a grocery list to mapping out a grant proposal plan.
Welcome to 2020 and to GRANTdog’s new series of blog posts under the title popPEN w/purpose. As indicated in my bio, I’ve had a pen in my hand for a while now. Somehow, the intentionality to mix vocation and pleasure, to write deeper with regularity and about the things that interest me most, has escaped me. Perhaps this genre of writing conforms to Covey’s “important but not urgent” category or perhaps writing is my “day job”. Regardless my procrastination, it’s high time I pick up my pen and dive in.