As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
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I met my fiancee (!!) on EHarmony in 2012. I had tried many different online dating sites over the years and found that EHarmony worked the best for me in the way that it was set up.
My biggest advice would be: BE COMPLETELY HONEST not only about who/what you are looking for and about yourself in your own profile.
I also had a 3 e-mail rule, because I had the experience that if I didn't want to meet someone by that 3rd email, it wasn't going to work. Also, I felt like if you do all your talking via e-mail then what do you have left to talk about in person.
As someone said above, you aren't going to find that perfect person in one date, there are still A LOT of frogs out there that need kissing. But, it can happen and when it does, you'll know because you'll have learned what you like and don't like from those who went before
Well, online dating worked for me! I was 33, single and all my friends were married (most with children). I wanted a relationship but I lived in rural Maine...not much to choose from up here. I don't drink, feel very uncomfortable in bars and did not know many (any) single guys.
So, online it was. I posted my bio on Sept 19. I was COMPLETELY honest...that was really important to me. My last line was "All I'm looking for is a nice guy, but all the nice guys are know are married, gay or incarcerated." On Sept 20, I got an email from Dave...my future husband. Subject line? "Married, gay convict seeks high school sweetie." Obviously, a good sense of humor was important to both of us.
We've been together for 16 years and just recently got married (due to financial considerations). I'd say go for it! Take the great advice you've been given, be yourself and have fun!
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On Sept 20, I got an email from Dave...my future husband. Subject line? "Married, gay convict seeks high school sweetie." Obviously, a good sense of humor was important to both of us.
I have some responses to your email. FWIW, Shadowfax...awesome moniker! << wink >> I believe we must be somehow separated at birth. We're even in the same age range! Ok...here goes.
1. Please, for the love of all things holy, provide us with a spew warning when you say something like the above quoted line. I was drinking tea and laughed so hard I spent 5 minutes cleaning my monitor! That was PRICELESS!! Thank you for being my first belly laugh of the day!
2. Your recommendations are spot on.
3. Congratulations - It is nice to see someone else who didn't get married right away, and who has had such great success!
Oh, and I'd like to commend unewillow, on her 3 email rule. What a good idea!! Wish I had thought about that! Had I done that, I wouldn't have had to deal with a few of those goobers! LOL
Note to the seeking: It's perfectly fine to be cautious. Perfectly fine to spend some time (even years if necessary) healing from past relationships and getting yourself in order before sharing your world with someone else. But whether your 21 or 121, there's someone out there looking. There are 7 BILLION people on this planet...there's gotta be one who is right for you, and you'll never know until you start your journey. My dad says, "You can't catch a single fish if you don't even put your hook in the water!" Time to bait your lines, single ladies!
I've purposely waited a long time. I just didn't want to bring men other than my son's dad into his life. After our split, DS was clingy, and it took him a very long time to overcome it. I have invested my time in him, and today he's more independent, even with still some limitations due to his Asperger's. He and I have talked about me possibly dating, and he's fine with it. I just need to decide when is the right time.
Just throwing this out there -
There is a single lady in my office that has a high school aged son. She recently found out that one of his "parent grips" was that he didn't have any type of men/women relationship role models because his mom had not dated anyone while he was growing up. Not saying this is the same for any other kid, but I though it was interesting and she sort of did to.
Just throwing this out there -
There is a single lady in my office that has a high school aged son. She recently found out that one of his "parent grips" was that he didn't have any type of men/women relationship role models because his mom had not dated anyone while he was growing up. Not saying this is the same for any other kid, but I though it was interesting and she sort of did to.
Oh, my son's dad has dated and even remarried within the past year! And along the way, we have remained (or maybe better to say rebuilt) friends, probably closer than we were when we were married. Before he remarried, we were known to spend part of holidays together, and we regularly had dinner together with our son. We just really wanted to maintain that family feeling, even though we live separately. It's an unusual relationship, to be sure, but it has worked for us. Also, along the way, I thought many times how any other man would probably not understand...another reason to wait. The new wife is good to my son, which is all that matters to me, and naturally I've stopped having dinners with my ex. We're what I like to call a functionally dysfunctional group!
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