Happy Birthday Johnny Cash, 1932.
Exercise 1: Have you ever written a poem that felt like it needed to be sung? Try and write a song lyric. It doesn’t have to be a complete song, just a phrase or two. See if you can set it to music. It can even be a familiar tune.
Exercise 2: Take a well-known lyric and change the words slightly, making them funny or different in some way.
My doughnut memory takes me back to my childhood in Wisconsin. There used to be German bakeries there that made the BEST cruellers! Have you ever seen the movie The Wizard of Oz? There is a scene where Auntie Em offers cruellers I do believe. They are the BEST!
However, if you live in California, as I do now, you can’t find them anywhere! So I literally drool when I think of them. They are crunchy and sugary on the outside, and light and flakey on the inside.
Do any of you have a food memory that brings your senses to life? Try and describe a food with words that will make your reader feel the same way.
This from Mary K regarding Yummy Doughnut Memories:
Mrs. Schimming, who lived across the road from us when we were kids on the farm, made the best doughnuts we ever tasted! They were raised (made with yeast) doughnuts, very light and perfectly done. She put sugar on them or frosted them with brown sugar frosting. I made similar doughnuts when I was young but they were never as good as hers. There used to be a bakery in Milwaukeee named Militzer’s that had sugared doughnuts reminicent of Mrs. Schimming’s.