On the transit train the other day from the terminal out to the remote parking at O\u2019Hare Airport, I was jammed into a completely packed train. I was standing next to a middle-aged woman who I thought was looking at my shirt when she said to me: \u201cIs that a fountain pen?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d I said. Her comeback: \u201cI\u2019m a fountain pen collector. What kind of pen is that?\u201d On the transit train the other day from the terminal out to the remote parking at O\u2019Hare Airport, I was jammed into a completely packed train. I was standing next to a middle-aged woman who I thought was looking at my shirt when she said to me: \u201cIs that a fountain pen?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d I said. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nProudly I said, \u201cA Pelikan Piazza Navona. Light, with a great nib.\u201d She asked something no one ever asked me: \u201cCan I hold it?\u201d Well, I had never let anyone do that, but I knew she couldn\u2019t fly the coop and run off with it. So, I said, \u201cSure.\u201d She held it, admired it, and said, \u201cI don\u2019t have a Pelikan, but I\u2019ll have to get one sometime.\u201d
\nI asked her if she had ever attended the Chicago Fountain Pen Show, and she hadn\u2019t but said she\u2019d be going home to google and attend next year. I told her I wanted to go two years in a row but couldn\u2019t because I was speaking each weekend.
\nNext year, I thought. Maybe I\u2019ll see her and maybe she\u2019ll have a Pelikan.
\nAll this because today I got the Coloradopen.com<\/a> catalog. Ah, it might be called concupiscence.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"