Let's start with the facts: 5'7", brown hair and eyes. I am 42 years old; I have been divorced 5 years and have 3 children - two of which still live at home. Friends say I am honest, intelligent, attractive, articulate, and enthusiastic. I'm mature - but fun loving and am basically looking for the same traits and characteristics in a man. I enjoy playing softball and volleyball. I enjoy dressing up and going out to dinner and dancing, but at the same time I am one of those people that finds enjoyment in simple things, hiking a state park and having a picnic or going to see a minor league baseball game. My children are exceedingly important to me and come first and would expect that to be understood and accepted as I would understand if whomever I was seeing had children. I am working toward realizing my goal of traveling overseas for the first time.

You know some of the best first dates I've been on were entirely low key - meeting for coffee or in one case ice cream and just taking a walk. Even when you've talked on line for a while or even on the phone, once you are face to face it's different.