
The Sun’s Smile
Her grandmother used to say, ‘The sun will not smile at a gloomy face. ’ It was her way of telling her to “straighten her face”, to smile. “What do you know about life that you are always frowning?” she would say. And she really did not know much about life then. She was 9. She knew pancakes were delicious, and Mr. Asamoah, her Math teacher, was a wizard who disguised himself as a teacher