The Notebook Situation for 2025
It's the same old story. I don't know whether I want to use one or multiple notebooks. Or even if I want to use paper notebooks at all. Here are some random thoughts about my intended notebook use for 2025. Each year for the past 13
My paper journal slash scrapbook
Many things I do turn out, in hindsight, to have been a complete waste of time. Journaling in my paper notebook/scrapbook is not one of them. I just love randomly flipping through them. I revisit these pages much more often than I do my old Day One journals or
The analog equivalent of having too many blogs
We all know that I have too many blogs. What’s less obvious is that I use too many different notebooks. Here’s what’s currently in rotation: 1. A yellow legal pad. It’s nice to just throw stuff on the top page without thinking. 2. Leuchtturm 1917 A5
At my analog desk
I still call this my “analog” desk. It’s for reading real books and articles. It’s for journaling. It’s for painting and drawing. It’s for sitting and staring out the window, even if the view is only that of a cul-de-sac in a boring middle-class suburb. I
Silver is better
Back in photo.net’s and rangefinderforum.com’s prime, there was a gruff, opinionated, brilliant, and helpful forum member and photographer named Al Kaplan. He helped me a great deal after I got my first Leica. When he died in 2010, his family sold mugs and T-shirts to raise