In May I submitted a letter to the editor to the Times Union about walking vs. driving Isabel to school. It was a very interesting experience for me to have my neighbors read it, comment to me about it, and even read it at the PTA meeting in my absence. I later learned that by writing this letter some people had actually changed their behavior; they decided to walk their kids to school from the neighborhood, or if they were coming from farther away, to get out of their cars and walk their kids inside the school to greet the teacher in the classroom. This is, I hope, the first of many such efforts.