Lessons in History,
Happiness & Heart

They haven’t always been there. Disneyland’s mountains. You realize that they haven’t always been there, right?

Friday, May 31st, was a BIG day for Disneyland. After four years of planning and preparing; four years of clearing and construction, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge finally opened...

I spent way too much time last week thinking about baseball and circus trains. In my defense, baseball is my favorite sport and Opening Day was last Thursday.

I have a co-worker, Michael, who lives by the axiom, “you only ever get one chance to notice a new haircut.” The irony, of course, is that Michael is the second baldest man in our office. You can guess who

Last month, Niki and I took our boys to Epcot for their first visit. They have been to Walt Disney World before, but we saved the Epcot experience until they were old enough to enjoy the more adult-oriented adventure.

A few years ago, while living in Hawaii, Niki and I decided to celebrate Christmas in Paris. Before we could take off, we first had to visit the local library.

It was a day decades in the making. Growing up in the 1960s, nothing mesmerized me more than the Space Race. I was five years old the night that Neil Armstrong took his “one small step for man.”

Happy 2019! I hope that your New Year is off to a great start. Niki and I celebrated the ringing in of the New Year with our Disney family in Indianapolis.

People often ask me why I love Disneyland so much. They want to know why I am so interested in Walt. When did this start? How did this all begin?

When I first dreamed of writing a book about Disneyland, I really only knew two things. First, I didn’t want to write another Disney history book. Those already existed, I had read almost all of them, and knew that I