On my desk at the Beacon Journal is an old mug that contains pens and highlighters.
The mug has sat on every desk I’ve had during my 30 years at the newspaper — probably six different desks.
The same mug was on my desk during my first full-time job, at the Wooster Daily Record.
During college, the mug was on the four different desks I had in the four dorm rooms I lived in.
Before that, the mug sat in a place of honor on a bookshelf in the bedroom where I lived from age 5 to 18.