Scottsdale Public Library asked Kelly Grey Carlisle:

I was really impressed with the skilled characterization of all of the amazing, frustrating and loveable people in your memoir. To me, they were as memorable as any fictional character, but with the added dimension of actually having existed. Did writing about these folks help give you perspective on all that they did to (and for) you? Do you have life lessons that you plan to share with your own children? Thank yo

Kelly Grey Carlisle What a thoughtful question; thank you! And thanks for reading. I had always known they were interesting characters, but YES, absolutely, writing about them did make me realize how much they did for me. At the end of the book I mention how when I was young I thought these people were kind to me because I was somehow special, but that now I realize it was because *they* were special. Writing about them was what led me to that realization. One of the things I'm proudest of with the book is that I could share their acts of kindness with the world. I hope my children have an equally varied "village" in their lives and I hope that I (and they) are parts of other people's villages.

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