When I was about 11 years old, I wanted to go to Neverland. I desperately wanted to go to Neverland. I wanted Peter Pan to turn up at my window and make the offer:...
From Report on Business:
Trusting in the strength of her body to swing on the trapeze at circus school for the first time was equal parts thrilling and terrifying for Catherine Connors.
The daring acrobatics perfectly...
'A lot of people felt that the world had grown too cynical for a sincere fairy tale.'
So says John Lasseter, at the beginning of a behind-the-scenes/making of documentary on Frozen, in explaining why that...
The other week, impotent I visited Disney’s Aulani Resort for its first birthday. They called it an anniversary, price but I prefer to think of it as a birthday, because Aulani is...
Emilia and I are on a grand adventure. Most Disney-related adventures are grand - most of everyday Disney is grand, which is part of what makes it Disney - but this one is particularly...
I love Disney. I’ve been pretty outspoken about this. I love the parks, I love the movies, I love their pirates, I love – yes – their princesses (especially Emilia’s interpretations of them, because,...
We spent a lot of time, last week, talking about science. Which is maybe not what you would expect children to talk about during a week at Disney World, but there it is. Much of the initial discussion was provoked, of course, by Emilia’s very interesting hypothesis concerning the function and character of wishes in the Disney universe – a hypothesis that Tanner appreciated deeply, but that he felt raised further questions about wishes and about the nature of all things existing within that universe. Would all wishes come true at Disney World? A quick test – a declared wish to have ice cream for all meals – quickly confirmed that hypothesis false. And if that hypothesis was false, what did that mean for other Disney hypotheses?
Shiny, happy, smudgy-faced baby, all jacked up on Disney's Animal Kingdom safari. Kinda hard to be angsty and sad, looking at that face. This is, I suppose, the function and purpose of angels.
*More shiny...