Grandfather Won One Hundred Dollars for Naming a Blue Can

leaving the hundred-dollar check uncashed in his recipe box as a silent testament to a debt he could never pay.

I set the blue can down on the white laminate counter, aligning its edge with the side of the old journal.

It is just a blue can, but now it has the right name.

The kitchen was quiet, the only sound being the distant hum of the refrigerator continue reading …