Top Highlights

• I didn’t see my sessions as the sort of thing that one would want to advertise, but as my teacher liked to say, “I guess it takes all kinds.”
• My fingernails had grown a good three inches by the time he struck his final note and called me close to point out a few simple chords.
• Down in the basement either Gretchen was practicing her piano or the cat was chasing a moth across the keys.
• I’d heard once in school that if a single bird were to transport all the sand, grain by grain, from the eastern seaboard to the west coast of Africa, it would take… I didn’t catch the number of years, preferring to concentrate on the single bird chosen to perform this thankless task.
• I thought briefly of checking myself into a hospital, but I’d seen what those wards looked like and I’ve always hated having a roommate.