A Light Dinner

A Light Dinner

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....
Funny Food

Funny Food

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...
Can We Talk?

Can We Talk?

The Big Day I’m from a large family of four boys and three girls, and I’m number three in the bunch. Or third oldest, as I always seem to say. A large blue collar family dependent upon urban transportation had limited entertainment options. We had a few...
Upside Down Whimsy

Upside Down 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...
Christmas Whimsy

Christmas Whimsy

I haven’t written in a while and I do apologize. All the holiday hubbub, I suppose. Here we are, just a few days from Christmas and I want to get back on a weekly schedule for the new year. When I started Art & Whimsy in May, my purpose was to make a case...