01. May 2013 · 1 comment · Categories: C. 1 to 4 years · Tags:

My brother and I love to listen to our daddy sing at the piano.  When the songs end, he gives us each an English toffee that he keeps in a jar on the piano. The toffees are from England where he once sang on the stage.

One day, he said that we should learn to dance.  The carpet is too rough, and we roll it up.  The floor is still not slippery enough, so Daddy runs upstairs and brings down the box of face powder that sits on our mommy’s dressing table.  The powder makes the floor easy to slide on.

We are dancing and singing louder than the gramophone until we notice that our mommy is standing there with my sister at her side.  She is angry.  She sends my brother and me upstairs.

My sister takes piano lessons.  I want to learn too.  Mommy says no.  I am four years old, how old do I have to be?  Mommy says that it is not my age.   Playing the piano is my sister’s thing.   Later, I can have something else.  I don’t understand.  My mommy says that my sister has a lazy eye.  She is slowly going blind.  I feel bad.  I don’t want her to go blind.

My sister does not go blind.  She wears glasses for her lazy eye, and later they invent special contact lenses.  At school, she is still First of the Class.

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  1. “My brother and I love to listen to our daddy sing at the piano. When the songs end, he gives us each an English toffee that he keeps in a jar on the piano. The toffees are from England where he once sang on the stage.”

    This seems like a simple description, but the way you use the toffees to get to England and then to the stage where your father performed on piano and then back to the present piano session is an interesting device that is particular to your style of writing. There are objects which have connections to ideas that transport the reader to different places and times.