-
runDisney Wine & Dine 2026 Recap: The Expo, the 10K, the Half Marathon, and the New 5K
A full recap of runDisney’s 2026 Wine & Dine Half Marathon Weekend: the Expo, the Three Caballeros 10K, the Mary Poppins half marathon, and what actually happened at the newly expanded 5K, including the balloon ladies and the sweep.
-
Alaska on the Disney Wonder (June 18-25, 2018) … Or “The Trip That Left Me Speechless”
If you ever want to find yourself utterly unable to begin to know what to write, I highly, highly recommend taking a 7 night cruise to Alaska on a Disney ship with your family and 150+ of your closest friends. I’ve been trying to figure out where even to begin to talk about this trip…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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….…
-
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…