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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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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This one comes up as something I'd like, based on past reading. What did you think?
I thought it was just ok. The chapters alternate between three women's perspectives. I found two of them really interesting (if incredibly disturbing) and one totally unnecessary and not really adding much to the story. In the final section the author tries to pull all three storylines together (up until this point the two interesting ones were already intertwined but the other was completely disconnected) and it felt really forced and random. It was a pretty quick read though, so I would probably say it was worth reading for the interesting characters.
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just finished Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. and it's the 53rd book for this year, and it's just October!
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This is a YA dystopian book. I thought it was a stand-alone, but apparently there is a second and will be a third book. They stopped this one in such a way that you'd be OK not going on to the others though (if so desired). I thought the writing was good and the story is a version of what happens in our nearish future because we don't do something about climate change.
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Time to update.
#50 A Judgement of Whispers by Sallie Bissell
#51 In The Clearing by Robert Dugoni
#52 Tempting Evil by Allison Brennan
#53 This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
It has been a while since I have posted, but I have been reading. So here goes
10 - The Little French Bistro by Nina George
11 - Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
12 - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
13 - Inferno - Dan Brown
14 - Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
15 - A Fall of Marigolds - Susan Meissner
16 - The Wisdom of Walt - Jeffrey Barnes
17 - Have Mother Will Travel - Claire Fontaine
18 - Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
19 - Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
20 - Beyond the Wisdom of Walt - Jeffrey Barnes
21 - Beyond Bullets: Journaling Ideas to Customize Your Personal Productivity System - Megan Rutell
22 - The Woman in the Window - AJ Finn
23 - Developing the Leaders Around You - John Maxwell
24 - A Walk in the Woods: Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh - Dr. Joseph Parent
25 - The Witch of Portobello - Paula Coehlo
26 - Love Does - Bob Goff
27 - Everybody Always - Bob Goff
64. The Survivalist by Arthur Bradley
65. Three Seconds to Rush by Danielle Stewart
66. Crossing Savage by Dave Edmund
67. The Shadow Priest by D C Alexander
68. The Mockingbird Drive by AC Fuller
69. The Swap by Nancy Boyarsky
70. Eleven by Carolyn Arnold
71. No Shelter by Robert Swartwood
40. To Die But Once by Jacqueline Windspear
41. Ruff Justice by Lauren B erenson
42. Feared by Lisa Scottoline
43. Women in Sunlight by Frances Mayes
44. House of Spies by Daniel Silva
And my next book will get me to my goal of 45!!
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