by EdKoehler | Jan 24, 2016 | Art and Whimsy
The Day Valentine’s Day, St. Valentine’s Day, to be exact, is a holiday fraught with ambiguity. No sooner have the stores removed the trees, ornaments, and Santa’s throne, the hearts appear. Pink-hearted cards, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, chalky...
by EdKoehler | Jan 18, 2016 | Art and Whimsy
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Have you ever attended one of those dinners where people are invited without knowing who the other guests will be? The idea is to make new acquaintances and enjoy an evening of pleasant surprises. These dinners are fun. Usually....
by EdKoehler | Jan 15, 2016 | Art and Whimsy
Are You a Food Person? Probably not. I’m not talking about a lover of food, I mean a food person. Like the Coffee Bean Lady pictured above. She’s a ripe, pre-roasted coffee bean. She’s in the marketing tradition of using anthropomorphic viddles to...
by EdKoehler | Dec 27, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
Whimsical or Not? My post from last week, entitled Christmas Whimsy, received a comment suggesting that Christmas was not whimsical. Since I like to think of a blog as a dialogue, all respectful comments are welcome and worth pondering. And so I pondered. Since one...
by EdKoehler | Nov 8, 2015 | Art and Whimsy
The Neighborhood The majority of families in my neighborhood had German last names. We first, second, third, or further back generation Germans were called “Southside Dutch”. Dutch, is this case, is an Anglo variant of Deutsch, the German word for German....
