Date men and women from United States / Alabama / Boaz, 65 year old

Date a soulmate from United States. I have become a little lazy or laid back sense being a widower. Still go bass fishing at least once a week and like to crank up the motor home and go somewhere (gas prices a little restrictive :] ).
I Love my grand kids and Two daughters who are married and live away. I am proud to have served my country in the Air Force for 23 years!
The person I would like to find should have a good
personality like to laugh enjoy the outdoors and not be the smothering kind, as I am Not. I do smoke cigarettes but it does not bother me to do so outside, I am a respectful person in all areas and would like the same from my best friend...

Meet people from United States. Someone who can live the modest, invigorating country life, but with occasional trips to "culture." Lover of gardening and outdoors. Literate, critical thinker, perceptive. (Two M.A.'s, if scholastic background matters. Former college and high school instructor, newspaper editor. Fitness relatively important. Like to cook at home. Someone who won't be dependent on me but who understands need for a sometimes intense two-way relationship. Good education is nice but meaningful experience is better. J.D. Salinger wrote me twice (I wouldn't have said that till he'd passed.) Met Eudora Welty twice. Ever read any Flannery O'Connor. Know what a pitcher plant is? Listening to it rain and thunder in a barn loft would be nice. . Raise rare and (legal) endangered wetlant plants.