Go Ask Alice

I've always loved Disney's Alice in Wonderland. The story was whimsical. The animation was fetching. But more importantly, I identified with the main character...to a fault. You see, Alice's misadventures begin when she gets bored during a history lesson and her mind wanders. It wanders so far that she finds herself down the rabbit hole and in a world she never expected.

She encounters the craziest characters and questions everything from logic to her own sanity. I've been there. The Mad Hatters. The spiked Tea Parties. The need to make it back to a place where things make sense again.

What recently intrigued me about this story was that Alice could leave Wonderland whenever she was ready. All of her topsy turvy encounters took place because she willed it to be so. It's not until she's being chased (mainly by her own demons, so to speak) that she wakes herself from this colorful and dizzying dream.

The elusive Caterpillar, the sly Cheshire Cat, the tyrannical Queen, the pressed-for-time White Rabbit; none of them meant her any harm. They were all just absorbed in a world where they belonged and she had no place in. Twenty some odd years later. Finally...I get it.