The hail came early this morning, right as I was transplanting the bell peppers. Mama laughed and said nature makes its own rules, like the way prices for our Sikkim Red never stay put. Hunchha, it's the same in the overseas territories, from what I read on the forums — everyone tied to a system that benefits someone else. I guess the real fight is to force a fairer deal, whether in the greenhouse or in the legislature.

Ryan Gosling? Mama, my grandfather once thought he was the same boy who fixed our broken water pump last monsoon — I had to show him a YouTube video to explain Bollywood doesn’t have a monopoly on pretty faces. But honestly, between hail scares and getting my bell peppers to blush exactly right, I’ve got no time to figure out whether the internet is right about him or just bored