Childhood Memoir: The Accordion of Burden by Mark Tulin/The Memoirist

Many thanks to The Memoirist for publishing The Accordion of Burden. There comes a time in a child’s life when he wants to play his own instrument.

“I recall the day he brought it home all too clearly. I was a teenager with long hair. I loved rock music and often had headphones attached to my ears, listening to David Bowie, Alice Cooper, and Grand Funk Railroad. On the other hand, my father liked Polka music played by a man wearing a funky hat and shorts holding an accordion.”–story excerpt.

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