The Postscript: Learning to Whistle
MY SISTER LEARNED to whistle at age 2. She was precocious in other ways, as well. She knew how to read by the time she started kindergarten. She demonstrated a physical dexterity I never did. She was much more talented at the piano. But it was the whistling that really got to me.
I was 6 when she started to whistle, and I remember it clearly. She sat in her highchair at my grandparents’ house…