Being Single, Southern & Over 55

I have been determined since I found myself single again to find a way to look forward to my future without being afraid of what I might see. I have always been a person who looked at every day with eager anticipation. I am not going to change that now, just because I don't have a man in my life. I have girlfriends (my age) who are single and so many of them are constantly talking about needing a man in their lives. They are always looking for an opportunity to find a place where men may be found. Bars, (is there anything sadder than a single woman over 50 in a bar?) single's dances (where there are only single women to dance with) and I even have a friend who going to a shooter's place to take a class on shooting a gun - so she can meet men! Men with guns! I just shake my head and remember something my Aunt Nell (who raised me) always said - Nel learn to take care of yourself. You don't need a man to take care of you. She was was not down on men, she just belonged to that group of fine southern women who knew that a woman who was able to take of herself could take care anything that life would send her way. It is her strength I draw on more and more as I follow the thread......