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["Wendy Gulliver" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

I am fortunate that I am not so traumatized that I cannot look at men 
without getting "the creeps".  I know some women are.  In fact, I enjoy 
looking at men. <G>  However, I also enjoy looking at lions.  I feel similar 
about both.  I don't like to be alone an a room with them without their 
"handler".  Even then, I have learned not to turn my back on them.  They 
make me feel like prey.  In the right setting, they are fine, but I don't 
think it is always wise to keep one around the house especially if you live 
alone.  I have to know one very well before I feel comfortable letting one 
in my "personal space".  Enough about lions.    I think it would be nice to 
someday find a man I could call my "soul mate" and be able to live a happy 
life together.  I don't think I ever will.  I know this is by my own design. 
A guy who would not take a polite "Thanks, but no thanks" for an answer 
asked me out.  I explained I don't date guys I don't know.  He asked how am 
I to get to know anyone if I won't date.   Oh, dilemma.  In the meantime, 
I'm not lonely, just too small to do some of the work that needs to be done 
around here.  lol

Wendy




> >   . . . the thought of having a few "sisters" around appeals to
> > me.  After all there is safety in numbers. I hadn't thought about
> > this until this thread came up, but I don't think the notion of
> > homestead of a few ladies and a shared man sounds so wacky at all.
>
> Not so wacky at all, indeed. There are two such enclaves north of me,
> in the general area of Ava, Missouri. I have been to Hawk Hill Farm,
> where perhaps a half dozen women live in several houses. No men.
> There is a larger enclave west, I think, of Ava, but I have not been
> there. It was started by a woman for abused women. Men are not
> welcome at all because some of the women are traumatized by the mere 
> sight.