Who's Who: New Additions (11/7)

[Sarah Heather Cardin]

Keep those listings coming. You--yes you--need to be in the Who's
Who! Remember: If you don't list yourself, you will suffer the
ignoble treatment that befell certain other shoes that tried to stay
out of the listings (evil laughter)

sarah heather cardin/saara-karnerva
compiling away boots

Name: Maranatha Lee Jordan (Just Lee please)
Occupation: Technical Support for an Internet Service Provider
Age: 21
D.O.B.: 7/27/76
Partner: YES (2 years in Sept.)
Location: Boston, MA
Pets: a bunch of plants
Interests: Queer, Women's, Native American, studies
Shoes: bare feet with pock-a- dot painted toe nails ( NOT MY IDEA, my gf
did it while I was sleeping)

Name: Kim
DOB: 3-1-80
Location: well, physically in Sacramento CA
Interests: poetry, Jamba Juice, drooling over new running shoes, volleyball, guitar, The Limited, savoring smiles, finally appreciating the quote "to thine
own self be true.." ~Hamlet, and warm summer nights!
Pets: a couple of darling dogs :o)
Feet/Shoes: 6 1/2....almost always in a pair of tube socks and running shoes, sometimes seen in a pair of brown leather strapped sandals

Name: Linda Allen
D.O.B: 11 May 1952
Age: 45 (just starting my second childhood)
Occupation: systems analyst/computer programmer
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Partner: Not presently.
Animal companion: A small herd of very spoiled house cats: Baby Kitty (my 14-pound Siamese Amazon kitty and best friend), Tubby, Freddie (named after Freddie Kruger -- hey, I got her on Friday the Shoes: Conservative loafers at work (where I'm expecte
d to act my age), Nike's or boots or au natural at home.

Name: Melanie Cornelius
Occupation: Trial attorney
D.O.B. (I'd rather not say, but it was in 1960)
Partner: looking (interested in a long term committed relationship, blessed by my religious community.)
Location: Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
Pets: two dogs, an English Shepherd (65 lbs.) and a Norwegian Elkhound (about 45lbs.) who is a runt.
Religion:-- Unitarian Universalist, with interests in Judaism, mysticism, and earth centered spirituality and rituals
Interests: sailing, mid size boats; gardening; cooking and baking; sensuality, massage; woodworking (just learning) watercolor (fairly advanced) piano (19 years of piano lessons later) libraries; Favorite shoe: saddle shoes, cowboy boots, and shoes th
e dogs haven't eaten. (The dogs one faux paus or should I say faux paws) No, no that's four paws. (yes that's it!)

Name: Carole
DOB: 14 Jan 54
Age: 43
Occupation: law enforcement support
Location: Springfield, IL
Partner: No :(
Animals: Three cats, Boots (the queen) Mickey & Sam
Shoes: sneakers usually

Name: Steph
Occupation: Billing clerk
DOB: 6/19/78
State: Minnesota (Minnetonka-15 minutes from Minneapolis)
Partner: I am bisexual currently with a man
Shoes: My comfy adidas tennies and my big black suede platforms

Name: Mynet (prounounced Min-ette, emphasis on the "ette")
Location: Western NY
Occupation: Human Services
Partner: Yes :-), for almost 6 years (that's about 30 in st8 time, I think)
Animals: Dogs: Carmen & Miranda, 13 year old pound puppies and Tallulah,
a 10 month old minature dachshund. Cats: Peanuts (18), Tasha (17), Sabin
(16), Payne (8) and Bogart (11 weeks). Yes, we're nuts. And into old
movie star names for our pets.
Hobbies: Pottery (if I ever get the time), books-books-books, pool (as in
billiards), and I'm sworn to taking up golf next summer (ugh). How could I
forget - major football fan (see my nick). Also, LPGA golf, WNBA - any
women's sport, except perhaps for roller derby and professional wrestling
(no offense to any fans). Occasionally hang out in the #lesbianlounge in
mirc.
Politics: Yes - I'm a bleeding heart liberal, no apologies.

name: debbie holland
dob:11/27/53
location: boston (via houston, via chicago, via western illinois)
occupation: paralegal (or paralegal specialist, as the feds say)
interests: race relations, nuances of the human psyche - the surprises
never stop
shoes: aerosoles black pull-on ankle boots that need to be replaced, but
i think they've been discontinued

Name: Marci
DOB: Aug 7, 1971
Job: Title is electronics engineer, but unfortunately the job
is more of a program mgmt/oversight position. Hoping to
fix that problem by next year though.
Location: Maryland
Partner: Currently married, but...
Shoes: Comfortable ones, but prefer work boots
Kids/Pets: Son (age 6) / Dog

Name: Nancy Milliner
DOB: May 3, 1964
Age: 33 (ugh!)
Occupation: Field Service Engineer in the semiconductor industry.
Location: Denton, TX.
Spouse: Dianna (hopefully she won't mind) for 2 blissful years -Oct. 11
Hobbies/sports: Golf, anything with my gf, but especially golf with my
gf.
Kids: hopefully next year-we don't want to rush
Mammals: Chelsea the springer spaniel and Lance (I did not name him)
the himalayan persian.
Shoes: Usually non-running running shoes but doc martens and hiking
boots are the shoes of choice when Texas weather allows.

Name: S. L. Gannon
Age: 33
Location: California
Occupation: Business owner
Kids: Proud mother of 2 boys who enjoys archery, hiking , writing, body surfing my Pacific and designing my web pages. Gardening has also become
a passion in the last 8 years or so. I grow all sorts of earthly delights!
Shoes: ADORES boots...from Doc Martens top leather thigh highs...yup...that's my shoe profile...*g*

Name: Marlana Coe (Rogue Hippo)
DOB: March 5, 1955
Age: 42
Occupation: Technical communications consultant, wannabe novelist, and
thorn in the side of pretentious, tedious, self-aggrandizing corporate/ Hollywood/social-climbing/academic/you-fill-in-the-blank types
Hobbies: bowling, gardening, biking, free weights, reading, writing,
movies, theatre, traveling, collecting art, surfing the net
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Partner: Gail (7 years)
Non-human animal companions: Tsunami Zoe Baywater and Chiaroscuro Chloe
Baywater, two very vocal and demanding black and white cats (sisters)
Shoes: anything that will fit my 71/2 WWW, almost square, heel-spur-bearing feet; right now: Ecco, Easy Spirit, a custom-made pair by Phoebe Footwear in Oregon, and my spiffy new black-and-white De

Name: Rebeccah Coulter (aka e angel)
D.O.B: 6/12/77
Age: 20 (yes, I'm a youngin)
Occupation: I work in sales at a department store. (Children's dept.)
I am currently out on workers comp, though.
Hobbies: Drawing, and pastels. I also decided to include laundry as a hobby. (I do so much I figure I should try to enjoy it.) I also work with my father cleaning up databases and the like.
Significant Other: Ivyan the most beautiful perfect person in the universe, whom I am completely in love with. Doesn't stop me from flirting, but Ivyan knows I would never do anything about it. (JusShoes: Currently I'm into the sock thing, as I can only
wear one shoe anyway.
Looking for a new pair of slippers.

Name: Deborah Levinson
D.O.B: 12/28/59
Age: What, you can't do the math? 37
Occupation: Web Maven (Recovering Attorney)
Location: Woodland Hills, California
Spouse: T. 2+ Married 6+ Total (anniversary: 7/15/95&91)
Additional Occupants: A teen son! Ack! (he's wonderful), 2 dogs, 1
cat and whatever is living under the bed
Shoes: Barefoot by preference, old, very old, tennies when out and
about

Name: Sarah Bickerton
Age: 23
Location: C Christchurch, New Zealand (yes, downunder feet!)
Occupation: University student, in my fourth year doing a double degree in physics and sociology. I should be doing some work right now, but my gf is
currently away for the week and I am missing her ::pout:: so as such my
'get-up-and-go' has got up and left!
Hobbies: .I love to rollerblade, spend time on-line (wayyyyy too much) and am completely addicted to SF >and fantasy (espec. Star Trek and Bab5).
Shoes: my favourites are the black, 2-3 inch chunky heeled boots I am wearing now (and everyday) ...but I also have a pair of black ten-up Dr. Martens which I save for special times.

Name: LouAnne
Date of Birth: March 20, 1981
Location: Connecticut, USA
Occupation: Student - high school junior *yeeech*
Partner: er, um, gee..... No.
Interests: Graphic Arts, computer animation, web page design,
literature, kd lang *huhmina huhmina*, british comedy, pagan religions,
anything arts-and-craft-like (i.e. bead looms, cross stich, friendship
bracelets, lame stuff like that)
Animal companions: One fur person, Oscar the cat.
Shoes : barefoot when ever I can, old nike running shoes otherwise or
boots if I'm feeling daring. I also have a pair of bright red rebok
high tops for those days when i'm slightly manic. :)

Name: Caril
Location: London
Occupation: Teach art to adults with special needs and make jewellery when I get the time.
Partner: My lover Marlene lives in Copenhagen. She's also a teacher and we get to be together during college holidays and half terms.
Animal companion: A cat called Alice who bites feet when she's hungry, which is a good reason to keep her well fed:) :)
Other pursuits: I write fiction some of which has been published(Queer Words UK) and boring sincere sounding documents at work(sigh) which usually get pulped and turned into paper mache sculpture. IShoes: Scattered about my house are lots of shoes, old
ones, and comfortable ones, and too tight boots, and downtrodden sneakers and mud encrusted hiking boots. There are sandals and flip flops. Yes,

Name- Aimee
Occupation- Bookseller extraordinaire
Age- 20.5
Sweetie- Yes indeeedy, Sheila
Pets- A kitty named Spooky
Love music, write poetry, like to build things.

Name: Cecilia B. Newell
Nickname: ceci
D.O.B.: 3/9/72
Age: 25
Location: Chicago, IL
Occupation: p/t homemaker, p/t asst. mgr in leftist bookstore, p/t artist
Partner: Marc, for 6.75 educational years
Children: our orange and white one year old tabby
Hobbies: drawing, reading (fav. authors: Amy Tan, Margaret Atwood, Anchee Min) dancing, tho not as much since my friends and I have become more sedentary, bike riding and singing.
Shoes: Until my best friend got a job in a shoe store I owned four pairs of shoes, now they have overrun my house. My faves are the bunny slippers I finally got after 7 years of searching.

Name: Samasutra
Location: red-headed lesbian in Vancouver, BC
Shoes: Large shoes......size 12 feet and only 5'8 1/2" tall...I have a shoe fetish
as a result....live in a major city that only has two stores that cater to
size 12feet. As a result, everywhere I travel, I immediately read the yellow pages
looking for shoe stores to cater to large slim feet. Love shoes and have
managed over years to find pairs to match almost everything. I do have my
limits to my shoe fetish...I don't smell other peoples shoes (grin)
Animal companions: No cats...very allergic but own two small dogs who think they are human. One is still a puppy, about six mo and he thinks he is Conan the destroyer and has chewed everything that

Name: Missy
DOB: 12/1/70
Occupation: computer related, extremely boring
Location: Virginia
Partner: my friend Rachel, who has been with me through thick and thin
Animal companions: a longhaired cat, looks like Sylvester but with a black
nose, has four white paws and the white tip on his tail. his name is Seatee
or c-a-t.
Shoes: more white tennis shoes than I care to count and my bo-bo's

Name: Amanda (Meander, `cause I couldn't go straight)
Age: 24
Location: Mississippi
Marital Status: Happily partnered for just less than a year to a
wonderful woman of 41 years who will probably become a lurker via my
internet connection (yippee!).
Profession: Therapist
Pet status: Momma to tropical fishes and frogs, stepmomma to Miss
Sapphire, a.k.a. the cat from hell (a beautiful persian with a less than
beautiful disposition)
Footwear Status (all important): barefoot (just got in from riding my
bike with my roomate)

Name: OrsaMinore, or Little Bear
D.O.B: 24 June 1951
Age: 46
Occupation: Kept woman, acc. to Bp. Spong; married w/kids, at home; book reader at large, and I do mean large
Location: Maryland, not far from DC
Partner: husband of 20+ years (we're newly out to each other as *theoretically* bisexual <g>)
Animal companion: no animals, just sons <g>
Shoes: Hush Puppy sandals for summer, ratty old Reeboks for winter

Name: Milo (non-aussie one)
Birthday: November 28, but I celebrate all month
Location: seagrove beach, florida
Occupation: used to be therapist/socialworker/admininistrator, but
now i manage 2 beach cottages + mountain chalet)
Family: i have 4 adult children...5 grandchildren, a kitty..frankie
a puppie...mollie (thinks frankie is her girlfriend)
Partner: none. i've been thinking i should have a truck driver
girlfriend.....if anyone sees me wandering aimlessly, please drop me off
at the nearest truck stop

Name: Jeanne aka jbg
D.O.B: Mar. 28, 1952
Age: 45
Occupation: Newly retired from Bell Canada, but wondering where the road
will take me, or rather us (includes sss Susan and 10 yr old lhasa apso,
Dusty)
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Partner: as stated above my darlin' Susan
Animal companion: also as stated above, the ever spoiled, personality
plus, Dusty.
Shoes: Badly in need of replacing, Moccasins

Name: Bayleh
Age: I'm starting to get old enough that I hate to tell, but 49 (I swear inside I'm about 28)
Home: Santa Fe, NM
Occupation: Computer Consultant. Own my own one-woman business that
has its ups and downs.
Interests: Back into the martial arts after a long lapse (thank goodness!)
Relationship: That's the part that'd make you think I'm either psychotic or some horny lurking guy. Physically and proximity, no. Emotionally, I guess so. Hard to extricate from a lllllllooooonnnnnPet companion: A wonderful shelter dog. Her name is Sp
irit.
Shoes: I find myself drooling after those old purple high tops I no longer own. Mostly white running shoes with the laces untied (oh, and did I mention that I'm kind of disorganized?)

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Name: Cathy
Age: Old enough to no longer think I know everything, young enough to
pretend I do anyway (32)
Location: A teeny, tiny mountain town north of Jasper National Park,
Alberta, Canada
Occupation: Process Operator, safety goof and hack technician for an
ethical forest products company
Preoccupations: amateur auto mechanic, hack carpenter and cabin builder,
admirer of all things rural and homestead-y, deranged writer of parody,
passable poet, accomplished cook, egotistical despot
Significant Pal: Mindy, my border collie with a bigger vocabulary than
I have, actually barks at men she doesn't know for no apparent reason(!)
Significant Other: Not anymore (sniff) We just wanted different things in
life..
Shoes: For Good: black pumps that are actually WORN a couple of times a
year at least, For Running: Asics Gel training shoes, For Work: big
hiking-style work boots with kick-butt steel toes. For most of the rest of the time:
beautiful, soft, slouchy kind of brown leather cowgirl kind of boots

Name: Shawna Simpson
D.O.B.: November 4, 1977
Age: 19 - close enough to 20 to be able to lie about it! :)
Occupation: Student at Oklahoma State University
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Partner: Yes, married 4 months - together almost 4 years.
Pets: Right now, all we have is a plant.. I hate apartments. As soon as we
move,I'm going to adopt a dog!
Shoes: My extremely worn out but very comfy asics and my cheapo hiking
boots!

Name: Leela Rajani Sinha
Occupation: looking for work
Age: 22
D.O.B.: 5/5/75
Partner: yep, male, studying for Unitarian Universalist ministry
Location: Milford, NH, at the outer reaches of the greater Boston area
Pets: not allowed per my landlord
Interests: anything and everything, since I've been out of school and a
zillion miles from Minnesota. Computers (looking for a good Win95 C/C++
compiler) reading, writing, massage therapy, woodworking, saving the
world, making friends. (What in blazes does one do for friends after
college?)
Shoes: boots, which look dressy and are infinitely better than flats or
pumps. Else, bare feet or socks.

Name: Jan
DOB: 3/3/58
Age: 39
Occupation: Computer Operations Specialist
Location: Plaistow, NH
Partner: Yes, going on 7 years
Animals: A Miniature Schnauzer Sophie and a cat Falcon
Shoes: sneakers and boots

Name: Cheryl Keating
DoB: May 24 1970
Occupation: geographical information systems techno-geekette by day, reiki healer and medium when I get the chance ....
Location: Cardiff, UK
Partner: yep, been with a smashing guy for eighteen months. Just coming out to myself and him as bi
Pets: two cats, Daisy, who's a shy old maid, and Holly, who's a (small)-part siamese pain in the neck. He's inherited a hard stare, an extrovert personality and the yowl. Now aiming for a puppy, sShoes: hmmm, lots. Generally comfy purple furry nylon
slippers while I'm surfing ....

Name: di
dob: june 12 1956
age: 41
occupation: sales rep and masseuse
location: santa rosa, ca
partners: 2 wonderful women
animals: 3 cats redford, spencer and maddy
shoes: lesbian made boots

Name: Cindy (I go by "Enlighten One" in aslm; I am cidnew on irc...)
D.O.B: hmmm....will I get gifts? lol 4-23-71
Age: 26 in human years, but I feel like my spirit has been around alot
longer
Location: Arkansas
Occupation: Student, JR. History Major...When I "grow up" i want to be a
High School or Jr. College Teacher. I also work for a retail company.
Partner: I have a gf :)
Animal Comp.: cat Stormy...i miss her very much
Shoes: My favorite are my Birk. sandals, Nike Air running shoes, and I
have some cheap hiking boots. I also wear loafers to work...ugh

Name: Lynn
Occupation: Prepress Manager
Age: 27
D.O.B.: 10.1.70
Partner: yep.
Location: Austin
Pets: 2 cats. One incredibly sweet one, and one that my friends refer to
as "bitchy kitty"... need I say more?
Shoes: mostly docs or tennies.

Name: Elke
Age: 34, birthday: 04.08.63
Location: Berlin
Occupation: having the first "real solid" job in my life (as an
unfinished computer scientist, in software production). Beside that,
having been active for ts and lesbian / gay-lesbian issues, trying to find back to the place at the warm oven of privacy.
Hobbies: Ya, good question, never new what to answer to this. I read a lot and I'm an absolute fan of C. J. Cherryh.

Name: Jasmine
D.O.B.: June 1975
Age: 7+
Occupation: Benefits Clerk/ Full Time College Student-Anthro.
Location: New York ( a Bronx gal)
Partner: No
Pets: Aw, shucks I live in a dorm - no kitties for me. The best I can
hope for is fish or a turtle.
Shoes: Boots, loafers and chancletas

Name: Brenna
D.O.B.: July, 1961
Age: 36
Occupation: Musician (pianist/organist, piano teacher, vocal coach,
composer, arranger, singer, accompanist, conductor, troublemaker)
Location: Portland, Oregon
Partner: No
Pets: two black short-hair kitties, Zsa Zsa 9 y.o. F, and Carmen 5 y.o. M
Shoes: wingtips, sparkly maroon loafers, boots

Name - Sue
Location - Canberra, ACT (Australia)
Age - 38
Partner - not right now (sob!)
Job - English teacher, occasional writer (wish it was the other way round - one day, maybe!)
Pets - 3 gorgeous cats -Ollie the wondercat (7yr-old, gormless-but-lovable blob), Miff the Fanged One and baby PeeQ. Should I count the kids here? Why not - feral 14 yr-old daughter and hairy 13 yr-oInterests - New Age stuff, Celtic stuff, Xena (yummy),
music (listening and sometimes making). I recently started back lifting weights at the gym, too, so include *staring* as an interest!
Shoes - sensible black lace-ups with pussy-cat socks for work. Docs or grotty gym shoes at other times. Fluffy slippers.

Name: Deb
DOB: 11/21/69
Job: Airline employee
Location: Missouri
Partner: unfortunately, no
Animals: one dog, miniature toy poodle named Tucker
Shoes: loafers, barefoot whenever possible
Hobbies: traveling and photography

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