The suggestion was made that we come by and pay our last respects to
asl before she is put to rest. Like Siri, I'm a sentimental person.
(No surprise, I'm sure.) Even though asl has become a spam haven,
killing off a place that changed my life is hard. I've been around a
year and come to know and care about the people who post. I'm
delighted to find aslm and have the moderation. I can read what I want
to read and not have to go thru all this garbage to do so. But, asl
was once like that, too. Where else could I stumble across my favorite
author and trade hilarious emails? Where else could I find a virtual
city and have to climb in the window of my own bookstore? (and learn
more about beer than I ever wanted to know?) Where else could I get to
know two guys, Dave and Ovid, who will always have my respect and
admiration? Where else could I participate in threads on ironing or
coffee that made me laugh until my sides hurt?Catnip got me through
the flaming I got my second day of surfing and lots of mistakes. Thank
you. Where else could I have gotten renamed so many times I wondered
who I was? I found a group of witty, intelligent, caring, accepting
women that let me share, stumble, listen and learn as I went through
one of the hardest years in my life.
I got to share the joy of a wedding, cry thru news of a death, cheer
because of a pregnancy, worry through illnesses, laugh thru the antics
of shoe's pets and kids, spend even MORE time at the bookstore, video
store, and music sections hunting for shoe recommendations. I found
the courage to meet shoes in other cities and invite them here. I
shared more of myself than I'd ever done and found no one laughed at
me. ASL gave us a place to learn and grow together. I found sisters
I'd waited all my life to know.   (And I was forced to use more maps
and atlases than I had in my whole life. Heck, I was forced to
be...global!)
  Sunny- I've told you this before but I can't say it enough. Thank
you for making the moderated group a reality. For those of you still
lost in the spam fog here, go to alt.shoe.lesbians.moderated
http://www.bareco.com/aslm has all the info you will need.

  I don't think I could say goodbye if there were not a place to still
meet the shoes. We've been thru battles and we've been thru triumphs-
we are a family of sorts. That means a lot to this shoe.

Joules
grateful feet