Are we coming full circle?

I opted for the $300 fountain pen.

It was 2012. I had cried, pleaded, begged and whined my way out of teaching high school so that I could stay home with our youngest child… and write. It wasn't that I didn’t love teaching. I did. And I absolutely adored my students.

But there was so much noise in that space.

Endless chatter, endless movement, and a…