Finding the Magic – Annie Proctor

Celebrate Other People on Your Birthday | Consider This

I love birthdays. They’re a great way to tell the people you love most in the world how much you care about them. I used to go all out for birthdays, especially my brother’s because it fell in the middle of summer break. My birthday, however, has always fallen at an inconvenient time– April 30.Continue reading “Celebrate Other People on Your Birthday | Consider This”

Working for Disney Will Ruin the Magic

I had countless people tell me this before I moved down in May 2014 for the Disney College Program. Many mistook my bright-eyed excitement for naivete and took to ‘educating’ me on what would happen. It was as if they thought I was moving down for a vacation and would be rudely awakened when I realized that working long hoursContinue reading “Working for Disney Will Ruin the Magic”

Magic from an Emergency Room Bed

Oh hi there. I need to find some magic. Please send some if you can. Sometimes life hits you hard, square in the face. This time, it hit me in the back. Yesterday, a tiny tiny stone sent me on a journey of intense pain and heavy medication. My day in the ER is a blurContinue reading “Magic from an Emergency Room Bed”

I don’t believe in magic.

I don’t believe in magic. Well, actually I do. Just not the magic powers or abracadabra fluff that most people associate with the word. To me, true magic isn’t a spell or a trance, it’s a real and raw emotion that is often never named. You can find it in the moment you take yourContinue reading “I don’t believe in magic.”