Six, about to be Seven
It’s 2022 in Kalispell, Montana. In the dining room, which is used loosely as a homeschool room and catch-all-for-papers -and-projects room, my mom was taking a piano lesson. Outside the air is cool and dry, the sun bright and pure. My other children are silently playing or reading. “I’m going to teach you to play Chopsticks first,” …