A decade ago, on a bright Saturday morning in August, I took my 11-year-old daughter, Ana, to an emergency clinic. She had a terrible stomach ache. Something seemed wrong.
That morning, there was a stick bug on our car’s passenger door mirror. The bug stayed in the mirror for the entire 10-minute ride. We had laughed about it – Ana and I – and I took a picture and posted it to Facebook with the caption, “coolest bug ever!”
The clinic doctor examined Ana briefly, noted how she…