Hand cramps

It's so easy for a healthy habit to get derailed by a consumerist impulse. A while ago I started journaling, and things were good. I like the Field Notes pocket notebooks, and I've been using them for a long time. I had a small surplus in a drawer, waiting to be used. Pocket notebooks are handy, and if you're in the habit of carrying a pen, then it only makes sense to carry a small notebook to go with it. Anyway, I decided to start using my pocket notebooks for journaling. My journaling was going really well, but I started having really bad hand cramps that I couldn't seem to resolve. As a lefty, I wonder if I was just never taught really proper writing technique, but after some cursory investigation I determined that what I was doing was okay. Then I had a dangerous thought: maybe the problem is my pen? After all, aside from a space pen that I was gifted awhile ago, I've never really been someone to care much about what I was writing with. I just used whatever was lying around. Could…

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