Seven Yellow Circles on a Plain Plate Saved My Family Home

its surface scratched from years of plates and coffee mugs.

I knelt on the floor, my arthritic knees clicking as I settled onto the linoleum.

I examined the four thick, turned legs that supported the heavy top.

Leg number three was the one nearest the pantry, the wood slightly darker where the grain turned.

I reached up to the top of the leg, where it continue reading …