My family stopped using a phone landline three years ago. And we are part of a growing market if you read Jess Milcetich's story on the reasons you either keep or ditch your landline. We did it too to save money. But the story made me revisit our cell-phone plan.
Cathy Hirko: August 2008 Archives
Continue reading Landline vs. Cell phones.
After I read Brent Burkey's local story on how York's smaller coffee shops were still buzzing in this economy, I remembered my trips to the local java places in downtown York.
Whether it was a caffeine fix or an excuse to get out the office and take a walk on George Street in York, there's something about local shops -- and not only coffee shops -- that make you feel more connected to the community.
We went back to the theater.
After swearing off movies this spring after yet another bad experience in a movie theater, my husband and I decided not to go the movies anymore. It was too expensive and folks surrounding you in the theater are either too noisy, rude or -- in our last case -- too young to be at the movie.
Continue reading Changed our mind on "Tropic Thunder".

