Devoting some time to the female characters that Disney got right - the ones who are good role models, and have something to offer beyond pretty dresses and falling asleep at whim.

Seriously, these cookies from the Main Street Bakery in the Magic Kingdom are sinfully delicious and incredibly easy to make. For best results, serve fresh out of the oven with a tall glass of milk.

Wanna know how to make WDW restaurant-quality fettucine alfredo at home? It's easier than you think. No, really. The sauce has two ingredients. Sometimes simple is better, my friends.

After a week of blissful Disney fun, I am back. As I mentioned earlier, I decided to do this trip "unplugged" - no live-blogging, no tweeting, no emailing. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, honestly. In fact, staying unplugged allowed me to really soak things in and appreciate all the little things that make WDW so magical. That being said, there was a LOT of cool stuff that I wanted to share with all of you.

After a week of blissful Disney fun, I am back. As I mentioned earlier, I decided to do this trip "unplugged" - no live-blogging, no tweeting, no emailing. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, honestly. In fact, staying unplugged allowed me to really soak things in and appreciate all the little things that make WDW so magical.

That being said, there was a LOT of cool stuff that I wanted to share with all of you.

Forever 21 is partnering with Disney Consumer Products to offer a new line of Minnie Mouse branded items in which Minnie gets a new look. Call it a makeover. And by "makeover," I mean "now looks like a person with a mouse head." The Disney Blog pointed out that the writing was (literally) on the wall for this, if you've seen the image of Minnie that's currently in.

Walt Disney Pictures (and the egos of Jerry Bruckheimer and Nicolas Cage) suffered a major blow over the weekend, as Sorcerer's Apprentice opened to a piddling $17.4 million at the box office, finishing in third place behind Inception and Despicable Me. Some would say the movie was cursed, and I haven't seen the film yet, but I think the blame lies with five key elements gone wrong: