Literacy Memory

One of my earliest memories of literacy is from kindergarten.  In the morning every day, we had to write a sentence describing a picture that we were given.  One day after school, I asked my mom about commas in a book she was reading to me, and she explained that they indicated a pause in a sentence.  From that point on, I thought commas were really exciting and proceeded to use them in all of my morning sentences.  Later, I learned what apostrophes were and they were equally exciting!  I eventually found out that you can’t just use apostrophes and commas whenever you want, and that was pretty disappointing.  Even today, I have a tendency to overuse commas and I think it stems from that initial excitement I had about them back in kindergarten.