William and Jane Sibbitt won't be traveling this year to visit their grandchildren in Vermont or his brother in California. They're shopping for golf shirts at garage sales, they're not eating out as much, they're doing less recreational shopping in Terre Haute, and they've even cut back on charitable giving. ...more

February 12, 2009

I was watching a memorial TV show honoring diva Beverly Sills. During a taped interview she said something similar to the fact that she was less disturbed thinking: I shouldn't have done that rather than I should have done that. I know that we all have done something in our lifetimes that we regret; things that we feel we shouldn't have done. But for most of us it's been some minor infraction. A venial sin not a mortal one as it were. ...more

October 6, 2007