Bruce Layman

14 Apr 2015

Indxd - A Memo Book User's Digital Archive

As a person who fills two or more Field Notes/Doane memo books per month, being able to go back and look at what I wrote...
09 Apr 2015

Sunset Showdown

In case you haven't noticed, I love orange. My EDC has pops of orange, I have an orange and canvas Filson briefcase (mor...
08 Apr 2015

A Letter Writer's Dream

April is National Card and Letter Writing Month and I couldn't be more excited. Colore finally managed to find a Post Of...
07 Apr 2015

How I Write a Pen Review

Chris Bowler said it best in his Tools & Toys article, On Mindfullness and Quality "...quality items not only endure...
02 Apr 2015

Pen Review: Lamy Al-Star Copperorange

To say that I have a thing for orange is a massive understatement. A look back at my Every Day Carry or a scroll through...
01 Apr 2015

Quick Look: Field Notes COLORS Edition No. 26

[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“2500.0”]2015 Spring Edition - Two Rivers [/cap...
31 Mar 2015

Guest Post: Brennan's EDC

My Every Day Carry post was inspired a lot by the daily texts and weekly phone calls that I have with my friend, and fel...
26 Mar 2015

Pen Review: Pilot Vanishing Point

I gave a quick look at my beat up Vanishing Point in my Every Day Carry post last week but I wanted to talk a little bit...
18 Mar 2015

Mindfulness to Intention

My 2014 started on a couch; a wet nose in my face, a faint champagne headache, and a word bouncing around my head. After...
12 Mar 2015

Every Day Carry

Over the past year or so, I've narrowed down my every day carry (EDC) to my favorite items. I cannot imagine replacing a...
06 Nov 2014

How well do you know that profile photo?

You appear online as a Facebook profile. A Twitter feed. A LinkedIn page. Somehow, those lines of code and that stream o...
30 Oct 2014

Scribbles and Scratch-outs

Our lives are messy and imperfect. They are not these over-filtered and hyper-curated versions of reality we perfect for...
24 Oct 2014

Give a Damn

This is not something that you do for others. This is not about how others perceive you. This is how you live life and m...
15 Oct 2014

whatever this is

In some capacity, I have always been a writer. The heavy boxes of filled journals, diaries, and notebooks stashed around...