And so it begins...

I've owned hundreds of notebooks, perhaps thousands. There have also been the various cigar tins, electronic devices, wallets, food packages, and even a block of wood. A block of wood with a name. Clever child that I was, I called it Redwood.

All of these things shared that same shape, approximately 3 by 5 inches, the Golden Rectangle, more or less. I've made my own notebooks, begged my mother to help me sew little covers for them. I've even taken a perfectly good Filofax to a cobbler's shop to have him make it about a quarter of an inch narrower, because it wasn't quite the right shape. I've spent thousands of dollars in pursuit of the perfect Palm Pilot in my preferred size. I've got a way bigger iPod than I really need because the 80GB Classic was the right shape and the squarish Nano wasn't.

I am definitely obsessed.

Within my reach as I write this:

• Treo PDA (a bit small but the right shape)
• A Chimes Ginger Chews tin (again too small but a nice shape)
• 4 old notebooks I'm not actively using
• 2 Moleskines: a sketchbook I use as a journal, and a softcover one with graph paper pages where I jot other random notes and to-do lists.

I'll be using this blog to tell stories, share artwork, review products, and provide a forum for the celebration of the world's most wonderful size and shape: 3x5.