Things Look a Little Different Around Here…
I’d like to give a big shoutout to Kari Mitchell of Kari and Company, who put together my beautiful new website and blog. Thanks for all your hard work, Kari!
At the same time, the revised and polished-within-an-inch-of-its-life manuscript of The Flower Reader is finished and sent. So this has been a crazy week. Now it’s time for a little fun!
National Doughnut Day (A Day Late, but Who’s Counting?)
This morning at the crack of dawn (well, not quite, but almost) a little boy rang our doorbell and delivered a box of doughnuts. Why, you ask? Well, a couple of weeks ago that same little boy worked his little-boy wiles on the Broadcasting Legend™ and convinced him to buy a box of doughnuts for some sort of school fund-raising project. (We live a few blocks from an elementary school and the neighborhood is awash in cute kids selling stuff.) Why doughnuts? Because yesterday was National Doughnut Day. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as National Doughnut Day. The things you learn from second-graders!
Where did the word “doughnut” come from? Well, according to my beloved Online Etymology Dictionary, it was first recorded about 1809 by Washington Irving, who took a break from managing the first viral book-marketing campaign to describe them as “balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog’s fat, and called doughnuts, or ‘olykoeks.’” So clearly the first doughnuts were hole-less, and actually resembled nuts. And hog’s fat. Yum.
I’ll take Krispy Kremes, thank you.
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