First Literary Experience

  From a young age literature has been an important part of my life. Having an English teacher for a mom and a dad who sometimes reads three or four books at a time, a love for literature runs in my family. Naturally, both of my parents understood how valuable reading to your child can be, not only for aiding childhood development and creativity, but as an outlet for building close relationships and creating beautiful moments that strengthen the bond between parents and their children .
  Almost every night my mom would read a story to me and my sister as we fell asleep resting our heads on either shoulder. Sometimes the three of us would play a game where each of us would add one sentence to a story, creating it as we go. The collaboration created a surreal collage of ideas, my sister's utopian fairy-filled fantasy's, me ruining them with superhero battles and a Michael Bay-like flare for explosions, and my mom somehow holding everything together. These moments are some of my most vivid childhood memories. I fully experienced these stories in panoramic high definition, adding new worlds for my imaginative young mind to play in. I know that doing this created a closeness between me and my mother that was only added to with time and maturity, and laid down the groundwork for my current love of books and of creation.