I retired from a 35-year career at Sprint 11 years ago.  I decided to just kick back and relax – that lasted about two weeks and I knew I needed something meaningful to do in this 2nd chapter of my life.  But of course, as I’ve said many times, I would only go back to work if my family were starving!!!  So--many of the ladies in my neighborhood had formed a mid-morning water aerobics class at our community pool three days a week.  I decided it would be a good opportunity to get some exercise and get to know these ladies better.  Over that first summer, I discovered that several of them were members of a women’s philanthropic club—Johnson County Young Matrons.  They asked if I would like to come to a meeting.  I said sure, and I knew after only attending a couple of times that I had found what I was looking for in JCYM—a way to give something back for all of the many blessings in my life.  I joined and have been an active member since 2015.