For 12 years she's been selling pens _ fountain, felt-tip, ballpoint, roller-ball _ at Binders Art Supply in Sandy Springs ( Ga . ), explaining how a roller-ball pen is different from a retractable ballpoint and why left-handers _ like me _ are congenitally inept with fountain pens ( our angle is wrong ).
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In November 2007, Merkerson appeared in a television commercial for Coricidin HBP . Merkerson also appears in a series of commercials for Uni-Ball pens, directed by Brent Roske, and in an American Express / NBC Universal ad for the " Shine the Light " program, in which she speaks highly of a restaurant not far from her then-home in Harlem.
