Ballpoint pens. One
of those things you probably use every day but don’t give much thought to. As a
writer, I am (seemingly by definition) a ballpoint pen collector. At any given moment
in time, I probably have more than one hundred in my inventory. (It’s not “hoarding”
if you actually use them, correct? Just checking.)
Pens are
everywhere! Tucked in spines of notebooks and journals; stuffed into coffee
cups throughout the house; MIA somewhere in my car (I usually harvest at least twenty
from underneath the driver’s seat every time I go fishing for a dropped French fry);
and often i have at least one jammed into a sweatshirt pocket—which I will
hopefully remember to remove before sending the shirt through the laundry.
