Janice Edgerson:  

You probably don't remember me from high school. I spent a lot of time not dating and not being in the social whirl during high school. I graduated fairly high in the class and went on to college in Minnesota. I wanted to get as far away from Little Rock as possible, and I'm still not sure I'd like to be in Little Rock for any extended period of time. In the 40 years since graduating from Central, I've been married (and divorced) twice, borne two sons (one in LA, one in NC), spent 27 years in the Army (the first black woman to be an Academy Professor at West Point), survived breast cancer, learned to live with debilitating osteoarthritis, and retired to the wonderful weather in San Antonio, Texas. I still love to read, write (I'm a member of Romance Writers of America), and travel--three years in Germany, several cruises, a two-week trip to China (2007), Greece, Italy, and Alaska (OK, I know it's not a foreign country, but Sarah Palin sort of makes it a place beyond belief) in 2008. I'm not yet a grandmother, but my younger son and his wife are 'working on it,' which probably means they're having a really good time. I certainly hope so. Now that I'm single again, I'm praying for a wonderfully good man who understands what 'till death do us part' really means. I don't care what color he is--it IS 2009, after all--but I am a height snob. I'm 5'9". Is it too much to ask for a mature, not-shallow man who also happens to be 6'1" or taller? Politically, I'm a conservative Democrat. You may t...Expand for more