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 ...

Pens frequently come up in my conversations, given my love of the physical objects as well as their purpose. It’s not unusual, for example, for someone to comment on the pen I use to sign charge slips ...