When Deb Anderson, the Jeffersontown Public Library manager, shared an opportunity with our book club friends that Metro United Way was looking for volunteers to fill "Little Libraries" in the California, Parkland, and Shawnee neighborhoods, I signed up.
I live in the Highlands now, but when I was a little girl, I spent lots of time with my grandparents. Mom grew up in Parkland, and Dad lived in Shawnee. Occasionally, when I am delivering books, I drive past their houses.
Growing up, my mother borrowed books from the Parkland library, and the first job her sister, my Aunt Emily, had as a newly-minted librarian was at the Portland branch.
Being one of those lucky early retirees who left her day job a few years back to figure out what to do next, I signed up for this because it was something I could do for something I loved. It wouldn't take much time either.
