“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“It would be perfect, the absolutely perfect mechanical pencil…but we will never see it…” Brad Dowdy, The Penaddict , 2022 I bet you have never noticed, but when you write with a pencil, you are continually rotating it to keep a constant, sharp graphite tip on the page. It is subconscious, we all do it.… Read more

“Like comparing a scalpel to a hatchet…’ Hugh Howey I have a simple and foolproof way to tell is someone is a surgeon, or more precisely not a surgeon. If they see the above photo and the word tweezers is heard in any form, they are absolutely not a surgeon. The Oxford English Dictionary defines… Read more