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, ...

Though I had grown up seeing my dad always using them, my own obsession with fountain pens started a little over three years ago, when I ordered my first pen, a jade-colored TWSBI Eco. It made writing ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." You—yes, you—you’re an artist, even if you don’t know it. Think about it: When you compose a letter or ...

Walk into any college lecture hall, and you’ll see a sea of laptops clicking away, accompanied by the occasional frantic scribble of a ballpoint. But every now and then, you’ll spot a glint of metal ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Often, when the day is done — when classes and meetings are over, and when his infant twins and toddler are finally asleep — University at Buffalo chemistry researcher Timothy Cook ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Basically, it’s anybody who loves to put pen—or pencil—to paper. “For there was something very ...