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Top Ten Ways to Ruin Your runDisney Race Weekend
Ten surprisingly easy ways to derail a runDisney race weekend—from chasing a PR and skimping on sleep to underestimating the logistics. Plus, how to avoid every one of them.
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First Thoughts: Toy Story Land Soft Opening at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Confession: I wasn’t that excited about Toy Story Land in the months leading up to its opening. ::ducks for cover:: Don’t get me wrong, I was eager for another new space. And for life to return to Hollywood Studios. And to eat everything at Woody’s Lunchbox. And the Toy Story franchise is one of my…
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CastleRun: Top 7 Reasons to Run a runDisney 5K
If you’re anything like me and you’ve participated in a runDisney 5K, you have a little pang of “why why WHY did I sign up for this?” when your alarm goes off at around 2 a.m. so that you can go run 3.1 miles. There have been many mornings when I’ve reevaluated my life choices…
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Disney Parking: The Fly on the Wall
So yesterday Walt Disney World made the oh-so-earth-shattering announcement that resort guests will now generally be charged an overnight parking fee. The fine print can be found here – but the gist is that for reservations made on or after March 21 of this year, standard overnight parking for resort guests will cost $13/night for…
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Taking the Florida Plunge: Looking Back on Six Months as a Disney Local
We closed on our Florida home on August 11, 2017 – just 3 days before the kids were set to start at their new schools. The flurry of madness that preceded that day has, as these things do, settled into a barely remembered blur. And while I do still usually use my navigation system to…
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Happy New Year, My Friends
The following is nothing more than a repost of my off-the-cuff thoughts leading into 2018 elsewhere on social media – for no other reason than that they are a part of the over story that I am gathering here…. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t exhausted and overwhelmed by the idea of…
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Motherhood and Its Tears
“Mommy why don’t you sing Rockabye Baby to me at night anymore?” “Honey, that’s actually not a song that I ever really sang to you….” “Yes you did. Will you sing it to me one last time tonight?” And like that I’m in tears. Over the end of a ritual that started at the same…
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Keep Moving Forward…Into What?
When I was in law, I had reoccurring nightmares about climbing. Well…perhaps “nightmare” is too strong a word. But the gist of my almost-nightly subconscious wandering was that I was, in some way, shape, or form, climbing upward on something that was shaky. Either a wobbly ladder or poorly connected platforms or a broken escalator….…
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Eat This: Beaches and Cream Soda Shop at Disney’s Beach Club Resort
There once was a time when I set my alarm for dawn 180 days out from our trips to book all of the hard to get ADRs. Now, on park days, I wake up in the morning and browse the Disney app with the kids to pick our day’s plans. Yesterday morning was a lazy-ish…
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How I Ended Up Leaving Big Law and Moving to Disney World
“Just put a date on the calendar. I don’t care if it’s two weeks from now or two years from now. Just put it down. And then spend whatever span of time exists between now and then wrapping your head around this. Because it’s going to be hard.” It ended up being just about 6…