Randall Ink: The Ocean Blue in a Bottle

Improbably, the focus of this post is fountain pen ink, but it takes some explaining to get there.

I married into a family of crazy sailors–a happy accident. Chief among these crazies was my wife’s godfather, a man named John Stewart, who was known to most simply as Beard. This latter name referenced the outstanding facial feature that could be found surrounding another unusual anatomical appendage, a perpetually smoldering pipe.

My wife likes to remind me that, for all the trouble I cause her, she never worries about me. Her defense: “Look at the things that happened to Beard, and ...

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