I’ve been a fan of Mickey Mouse for pretty much as long as I can remember…

I grew up in a very Disney-centric household, with walls covered in cross-stitched pictures of my Mom’s favorite animated scenes and bookshelves filled with seemingly every Disney storybook ever published, not to mention the movies themselves! I believe the first full-length Disney animated feature that I saw in an actual theater was The Little Mermaid, although our VCR can certainly vouch that many more were viewed time and time again in our living room long before that! The characters decorated birthday cakes for me and my sister each year, once computers began to creep into my life, Dad made sure that the creative inspiration kept a presence first through the classic “edutainment” Disney titles and later by actually trying our hands at animating on the computer ourselves – to say that Walt Disney played a significant role in my childhood certainly wouldn’t be an understatement by any stretch of the imagination.

So nowadays not much has really changed – I’m a bit taller and I know bigger words than I did back when I first visited Walt Disney World at the tender age of four years old, but I’m still a fan of all that the Mouse stands for through and through. When I walk through the Magic Kingdom, I feel like a kid again … like I can only imagine I felt when I rode the Tea Cups or hugged Mickey Mouse for the first time.  Disney World has all but become a regular part of my everyday life – back in 2007 I proposed to my wife, Sara, in front of Spaceship Earth at Epcot, a year later we celebrated our honeymoon amidst the magic, and more often than not whenever we can find a bit of free time together Disney has become our go-to destination for vacations as well as random getaways alike!

My Time with the Mouse… is a website designed to share all of the things that I love about Walt Disney World with everyone else who treasures Disney’s special brand of magic just as much as I do.  I’m a writer by trade (more about that here), as well as somewhat of an amateur photographer, and so this site is an opportunity for both of those two passions of mine to meet at a place where dreams and imagination thrive every single day!

I hope that you enjoy everything that I’ve put together here – from the columns to the photos to the stories of moments big and small … with so much to see and do around The Most Magical Place on Earth, I look forward to sharing my adventures around Mickey’s kingdom here for many, many years to come!