I was making coffee when she said it.
“Ruby,” she called out, her eyes still on the paper.
“I want to build an app.”
I laughed. Not because I didn’t believe her—but because it was just like her.
Always deciding, always declaring, always starting something right before most people would’ve said enough.
She turned the newspaper toward me.
There, folded neatly at the edge of the table, was a headline about a woman in Japan—Masako Wakamiya—who had become the oldest person in the world to develop a mobile app.
“She was 81,” my mother said, a little fire in her voice.
“I’ve still got a whole year to beat her.”
That was how it began.
Not with a grand plan or a startup pitch, but with a cup of coffee, a newspaper, and a woman who wasn’t done dreaming.
The question hung in the air, warm and unanswered:
“What should I build?”
Neither of us had an answer yet. But something was already turning.
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