In honor of her defiant footwear, Rahel Jaskow sends in her first 100 word story.

I went on a hike today, and I heard about the bombing attack in Tel Aviv just as I was getting on the bus to go to the meeting point.

During the hike, my old hiking boots fell apart. (Well, I'd had them for more than a decade, and they were cheap to begin with.)

So after the hike, I went to buy new boots with my birthday money.

I bought Caterpillar boots.

Two good things about that:

I get to defy the Caterpillar boycott ... and I get to walk around in shoes with the word "Cat" on them.