Late Hands

Learning the piano from scratch at forty-six, on a used digital in a bedroom corner.

2026

  1. Two years in: the Chopin E minor prelude at forty beats a minute
  2. Six weeks of plateau, and the two changes that ended it

2025

  1. Sight-reading one line a day, and why I hated it for three months
  2. The first real piece: a Burgmüller arabesque and about forty hours

2024

  1. Six months of habit: the twenty-minute rule and the days I skipped
  2. Week one: middle C, a sore wrist and a bench that was two inches too low