I'll Have The Curry.

I remember it clearly. I drove my little blue Honda civic to school just like I did every morning. But this morning was a little different.  It was a Tuesday and on a regular Tuesday, I would have had to be at dance team practice early in the morning. It was the middle of football season, after all. But this Tuesday, I got to sleep in a little bit because the class of 2002 was meeting before school to take our large panoramic class picture. As I pulled into the parking lot, I heard over the radio that a plane had hit one of the twin towers in New York City. As a pilot’s daughter, I felt sad for the pilot who I assumed had gotten confused or lost and accidentally flew his small Cessna the wrong way. Boy, was I wrong. Since cell phones were a newer technology, most teenagers my age didn’t have one. They certainly didn’t have access to 24/7 news and social media like our teens have now. We had little outside contact, so most of the school had no idea what was happening that morni...

A few months ago, I came across home security footage of these adorable rabbits caught jumping on a trampoline. Maybe you saw this one too. The rabbits were jumping with so much joy having found this bouncy nylon canvas.   I watched it a few times because I couldn’t believe my eyes. What an amazing, one of a kind chance to catch rabbits doing something like this! I didn’t even know rabbits could jump on a trampoline! They looked like they were having so much fun. I was mesmerized by the impossible becoming possible.   I even shared it with my sister and best friends.   I’m embarrassed to say it now, but I’d been tricked. We’d all been tricked. It wasn’t until I took a step back to really think about it, that I realized there was no possible way this video could be real. I started asking questions- how did they get up on the trampoline? How did they even know that the material was elastic enough to bounce their little bodies into the air? It wasn’t adding up. I opened th...