Five Years with TPA

(Kimberly (she/her) took the express train down the fountain pen/stationery rabbit hole and doesn't want to be rescued. She can be found on Instagram @allthehobbies because there really are many, many hobbies!.)Holy frijoles, how has it been five years writing for The Pen Addict?!? On the one hand, it feels like just yesterday that the Bossman asked if I would be interested in writing for TPA, to which I responded, DUH! YEAH! I think? I dunno?!? I wrote about this at my one year anniversary with TPA. On the other hand, it definitely has felt like 5 years, especially when I count all those very late night submissions (but still on time and not late, Boss!) - time to look back at the past 5 years!Some statistics: 241 articles written - I know there are 52 weeks in a year, but the Bossman does give time off for holidays, and I’ve had scheduled vacations, illness, etc. so it came out to 241 instead of 52 x 5 (don’t make me math). My first TPA article debuted on Friday of the 2021 DC Pen…