“My new year’s resolution is to never again let anyone use me for a doormat.”
“My new year’s resolutions are three: not to gain weight, to be politically active for one candidate for president and to support the Anaheim Angels on their journey to their next world championship. Thank you, very much.” — ■ ■ ■ ■ “Well, I don’t make new year’s resolutions, and so usually I ignore questions like this, but it occurred to me that, although I don’t believe that you can make a sudden change by
“My resolution for the new year is to continue the battle against mass fluoridation of our city water supply. This is wrong and should not be forced on us. No more toxic chemicals need to be added to our water. Wake up Santa Monicans, and get on this battle.”
making a resolution, that there are changes that I’ve been making in my life that I trust will continue in 2003. What the first one I think is to try to make my daily life and all my activities more in accord with my basic beliefs, rather than just to act impulsively. And, the second one is to try to keep my money in Santa Monica. That sounds stupid, I don’t have very much money, I have a small, limited income, and recently I’ve become aware of how easy it is to send all my money to giant corporations to their headquarters somewhere. So I’ve started shopping locally, going to small, locally-owned business for everything that I can. It’s been interesting and more fun than I would have thought, and it makes me feel good, that way the little money that I do get to spend stays in Santa Monica, or at least in the vicinity rather than going off to someone whose face I will never see. So that’s my two bits about new year’s changes. Thanks for the opportunity to talk.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 3, 2003. Read the original PDF.