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I want to introduce myself. My nam is Kat and I live in SW Virginia in the beautiful Appalachian Mountains. No stores carrying FPs or inks, or FP friendly paper here.

 

I Fell in love with fountain pens when I was a young adult, when I bought some cheap fountain pens with cartridges at Walmart or a store like that. Can't even find those now. That must've been the late 70s early 80s, in the Stone Age. Then my son who was in his teen years I think, maybe young adult gave me a ballpoint pen and Fountain pen set. It was a Diplomat Attaché; not long after I used the cool adapter for Sheaffer ink in purple! Wow! My world expanded!

 

That was all I had until earlier this year, when I stumbled upon some Instagram FP lovers and some of the accounts they followed.

 

Hooked for life.

 

I now have 13 pens, including three Watermans, several Pilot Metros, a rose gold Lamy, an Italix stub (I want more stubs!), a vintage Parker and a Parker Sonnet, and some I can't remember. I have 7 bottles of ink. I am a writer and artist so they get used a lot.

 

I am a retired psychotherapist (grief and trauma resolution specialist) living with my retired English husband, 2 small dogs, 3 cats (one is huge--Maine Coon, we think), two parakeets and an adult daughter. We each have three adult children, but his are in England.

 

More info than you ever wanted or needed to know!

 

Hi!

Kat

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Welcome from Santa Rosa, CA

"My wife will probably kill me if I drag her to another antique store looking for FP's......."

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Hello and Welcome to FPN!! Glad to have you as a member!!

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Welcome Kat!

Our daughter, son-in-law, and grandkids lived in Blacksburg for four years while he did his PhD at VTech. Amazingly beautiful country. We enjoyed visiting them but are glad they are a bit closer now; even if only a bit.

Enjoy the forum but know we are enablers!

May we live, not by our fears but by our hopes; not by our words but by our deeds; not by our disappointments but by our dreams.

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Welcome to our little corner of the universe from a pen user in San Diego.

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We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams

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Hello Kat and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a [fountain] pen - that is true happiness!


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I don't know how to reply to people. Could someone tell me how?

Welcome home. Pull up a stump and set a spell. Front Royal area?

 

If you click on the "quote" button it will copy the message you are replying to and also provide a link.

 

 

 

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Hello Kat and welcome to FPN. :W2FPN:​

 

Chrissy, what does "Snail Mail Exchange "

Mean? If it means pen pals, could you tell me how I can participate?

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Welcome, Kat !

 

Perfectly written introduction.

In our digital world, writing by hand is so very therapeutic. I think the reason is we are "linear" creatures, and writing is analog.

 

Write with joy.

Auf freiem Grund mit freiem Volke stehn.
Zum Augenblicke dürft ich sagen:
Verweile doch, du bist so schön !

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Hello and welcome. If you are up for a road trip, the Ohio Pen Show is coming up the first weekend in November. It is in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.

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