There is something about doughnuts that cheers me up. I’m not sure what it is...

There is something about doughnuts that cheers me up.
I’m not sure what it is. The sweetness? The roundness?
It could have something to do with Homer Price and his doughnut-making machine.
Or maybe it is just the inherent frivolity of doughnuts that cheers me so.
In any case, when I was in Seattle over the weekend, I was told I had to go and check out Top Pot Doughnuts.
In this new book of mine (Flora and Ulysses, The Illuminated Adventures (which comes out in the fall)), there is a squir...