Date men and women from United States / California / Portola Valley, 78 year old

Date someone special from California, United States. I love to laugh and enjoy life. I appreciate the arts, music, theatre, Opera and even a good football game now and then. I am healthy, take no medications and although I am active, I am not the athlete I used to be. Tennis was my greatest love
While I have been to, and lived in many parts of the world, right now I enjoy being home and close to my grandkids. I have five grandchildren, between the ages of 5 and 17, and they all live fairly close to me. In short, family is important. Of course, during my 47 years of marriage and family life, I have cooked a lot but would prefer to have someone share that activity today.

I would like to be with a man to share activities and thoughts with. I enjoy people and am very much into cultural activities. I do not believe partners need to share all their interests, but they need to have shared values and enjoy many activities together. I have lived alone for 6 years, but am definitely not bored with my life. Although I do not think I will remarry, I would enjoy a male companion since life with only female friends does not meet all my needs. It would be nice to have a date, dress up a bit and perhaps go on a trip. I look forward to sharing warmth and potential intimacy when the chemistry is right and mutual respect is there.
I consider myself liberal and enjoy discussing politics, not in order to change a person's views but to learn why they have those views. I am flexible and realize that life is all about learning and searching---we can never know everything. I also enjoy discussing books and movies. Do not consider myself an intellectual but find myself attracted to them. Being intuitive I guess the attraction is analytical types.
These days I play at golf, tennis but do no longer plan to ski, did last year. My newest venture is to learn Chinese, not necessarily to speak but to understand some characters and how sentences are formed I was born in Shanghai and spent 13 years there, but at the time they only spoke Shanghainese.