Piloting My Way To Dromgoole's
PEN WORLD|February 2024
Rice Village in Houston, Texas, is always buzzing with holiday shoppers in the weeks leading up to Christmas, so it was no surprise to me that not a single parking spot was available in front of family-owned Dromgoole's Fine Writing Instruments and Stationery store for its holiday shopping event on December 9, 2023.
SUZY TARNOWSKI
Piloting My Way To Dromgoole's

I stopped by to see our friends Bill Pearcy and Jaclynn Burleigh, who were in town representing Pilot for a Dromgoole's in-house event; and of course, to check in with Larry, Christine, and Michael Dromgoole amid the holiday bustle.

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