Thank you!

This column is a thank you to you, my readers, as this may be the last issue of the Westlake | Bay Village Observer. I have been writing this column since 2015 and I have truly enjoyed it. I have loved when people approach me and inform me that they enjoy reading my columns. That has meant so much to me to hear.

When I started doing this, I had no idea if people would read it, or that I would be doing this close to nine years later! I have learned so much as I researched different topics.

I hope that you have been able to incorporate some of the ideas into your daily lives. I also hope that you will continue to talk with family, friends, and neighbors about the habits you have changed, and how each one of us plays a role in protecting the environment. Each one of our actions makes a difference, as when they are added up collectively, that is how we change the world.

My goal was to help you, my readers, with simple actions to incorporate into your daily lives – along with the reasons to make the changes – that create big environmental impacts, and that are easy for you to share with others.  

I'll leave you for now with the impactful words of anthropologist Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”