Join me in this engaging video as I prepare for my students' first day of school by making customized pencils! Watch the ...

School-supply lists had come in, and I sat in the store dizzied by the multitude of mechanical pencils. Rather than sink dough into something that would be thrown away within a week, I called around ...

The whole point of a mechanical pencil is to have perfect sharpness forever. Yet without precise engineering and build quality, the standard slender leads are doomed to constant breakages. This ...

If you had to name one thing that was emblematic of the back-to-school season, what would it be? Overloaded backpacks, crossing guards and 3-ring binders all have their places in the iconography, but ...

Some mechanical pencils with a high level of writing comfort are seen in this photo provided by Mitsubishi Pencil Co. The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the ...