12 Books for Christmas

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 couldn’t do better than what was already available.

You Live the Life You Think About

As we look forward to Thanksgiving Week, I want to take a moment and look backwards. When we think about the history of Thanksgiving, most of us remember the stories from the pilgrims, the Mayflower, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. What you may not know, or may not remember…

Plane Crazy

If it weren’t for Nabisco, I’m not sure that I ever would have noticed.  It took a package of Oreo sandwich cookies, a special edition package, for me to realize that Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie…

The Nightmare Before Christmas New Years

On October 5, 2001, Disneyland guests experienced their first official “Nightmare.”  No, the park didn’t close early, experience a multitude of mechanical breakdowns, or (gasp) run out of ice cream.  

Learning to Let it Go

October is a big month for fans of Walt Disney World. October is when the Orlando Sentinel announced in 1965 that Disney was coming to Central Florida. October is when the…

The Adventure Continues

It was important that I go back.

Granted, I have been to Disneyland more times than I can possibly count. But thirty years after stepping into Walt Disney’s original Magic Kingdom for the first time, on August 19…