After dinner last night in Lahaina, the Duchess and I strolled down Front Street to Courthouse Square to view the Banyan Tree Christmas lights. The Lahaina Banyan Tree, the largest in the United States, was 8Continue reading
Category: Duchess – Penny Showalter
Christmas 2017: “We’re not decorating this year”
“We’re not decorating for Christmas this year” The Duchess uttered that pronouncement after she accepted my proposal to spend the holiday in Maui. I thought viewers might appreciate what “not decorating for Christmas” means inContinue reading
Goodbye Chapel Hill; Hello Chicago: Max Headed Home
Sometime when I wasn’t looking during the last two or three years, my younger son transformed from a nice enough kid to a conscientious, loving, altogether delightful adult. Go figure. After an enlightening, entertaining, inspiringContinue reading
We Wish You A Maui Christmas – Mele Kalikimaka By Jimmy Buffett
So, why am I posting about an Hawaiian Christmas in September? Because I didn’t get around to it in August. Here’s the story: Duchess, aka Penny Showalter aka Mrs DrHGuy, is one hard-core Christmas elf. Continue reading
The “DrHGuy Loves The Duchess” Show Completes Sixth Season; Renewed Ad Infinitum
Musing on the sixth anniversary of our wedding today, I realized we had all the makings of a Netflix Original romcom – albeit one with a soundtrack atypically dominated by Leonard Cohen songs. Consider this:Continue reading
The Great Pre-Tinder: Online Dating When Match.com Was The Only Game In Town
As I was Photoshopping the above graphic to illustrate an updated, Tinderized version of Leonard Cohen’s poetic plea to Marita, I realized that, while Leonard would have been successful seducing women with either his looksContinue reading
Greater Love Hath No Man Than This: That A Man Save The Rye Chips In Chex Mix For His Wife – A Guest Post By Penny Showalter
Our household’s salty snack of choice for the past year has been Chex Mix – Traditional, which comprises (I think – there is some dispute about the “real” recipe) the following ingredients baked in aContinue reading
The Leverage Of Love: 10 Things That Are 10 Times More Fun With A Sweetheart
Thanks to superb training by Julie,1 Val,2 and the Duchess aka Penny Showalter aka the love of my life, I am now an expert in the science of detecting activities that are exponentially more enjoyableContinue reading
See You Down The Road
Duchess & I are moving to a home a few miles down the road from our current abode in Durham, North Carolina to the nearby community of Chapel Hill. The immediate consequence of these eventsContinue reading