It started a thousand years ago with a turkey feather. Someone must have looked at the hollow shaft of the quill and made the jump to: “I’ll whittle a point on the end, dip it in this mixture of berry ...

I’m writing this article with a pen. And not just a regular pen. A quill pen. It's a goose feather I've carved with a straight razor into a sharp point and dipped in ink. I’m doing this because I ...