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
Category: Holidays-Celebrations
1989 Showalter Family Christmas Letter
Dear Friends & Family I believe the publication of this, our fourth Christmas Letter, may qualify it for entrance into the pantheon of holiday traditions. Admittedly, this epistle is not in the same leagueContinue reading
Showalter Family/Business Christmas 1988 Newsletter
Introduction In 2006, when I first published this entry, I was sporadically making my way through Julie’s paper and electronic files, a task I should have completed long ago but instead deferred for what IContinue reading
Julie’s 1997 Showalter Family Christmas Letter
Dear Friends & Family Someone should write an article about our wired family (wired in the sense of communication-ready rather than in the sense of easily-triggered, although, now that I think of it,Continue reading
Julie’s 1994 Showalter Family Christmas Letter
Dear Friends & Family Let 1994 go down in history as the year we acknowledged it — we’re a family of obsessives. Sam reads, studies, talks about the Titanic. Every conversation eventuallyContinue reading
Julie’s 1993 Showalter Family Christmas Letter
Dear Friends & Family The whimper heard coast to coast somewhere mid summer this year was me, the last holdout of 70’s feminism, finally giving up on the belief that boys and girls, raised theContinue reading
Yule Log Film Festival Winner: “Yule Log III – The Directors Cut”
While the original WPIX repeating-loop Yule Log featured in yesterday’s TV Video Yule Log: Hot Or Not? post is still available, a number of video competitors, parodies, and take-offs can now be found. AContinue reading
TV Video Yule Log: Hot Or Not?
Finally A Compelling Reason To Buy That High-Def TV The opening lines of this 2006 AP news story provide the core information necessary to update the TV Yule Log Phenomenon entry in ones cultural database:Continue reading
Love & Marriage On The Beach
The Duchess & I attended Gwen’s & Pete’s nuptials today. I had the honor of walking the bride to the alter, where in the company of family and friends who braved the wind and coldContinue reading