Piano Prequel

There's more to the story about my mom Eileen Owen (that's her name before she married) and playing the piano. This goes back to her childhood so we'll call it a prequel.

As mentioned before, her father was quite a bit older than her mother so when he retired, her mom went to work. Eileen didn’t like making dinner so when she heard the bus that her mom took home from work, she would sit down at the piano to begin her lessons. Her mother would come in and find her practicing and couldn’t bear to make her stop to help with dinner. That’s how my mom never really learned to love cooking but also how she became an amazing pianist. 

Now she would never call herself amazing, but her talent and skill went on to bless the lives of many, many people. And in case you were worried about it--I was always fed while growing up. As I said before, my favorite thing ever was listening to her play the piano, and I wouldn’t change that for all the gourmet meals in the world!