How to Dispute Credit Report Errors - Your credit report--a type of consumer report--contains information about where you work and live and how you pay your bills. It also may show whether you've been sued or arrested or have filed for bankruptcy. Companies called consumer reporting agencies (CRAs) or credit bureaus compile and sell your credit report to businesses. Because businesses use this information to evaluate your applications for credit, insurance, employment, and other purposes allowed by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), it's important that the information in your report is complete and accurate. - read more...

How to Take Care of Your Laptop Computer - As the proud owner of a laptop computer, you'll want to keep your machine in the best possible condition. Aside from cleaning your screen and dusting the keyboard, however, you'll need to take a few extra steps to maintain your laptop's health: - read more...

Living the Life: Tradition - How would Jesus deal with people so caught up with their religious tradition that they were unaware of the fact that their practices were actually separating them from the God they claimed to be serving? We don't have to look far for an answer. Consider with me Mark, chapter seven, verses one through eight. - read more...

Who Is James Bond? - Novelist Ian Fleming (1908-1964) claimed he based his smooth secret agent character James Bond on Cary Grant, but in 1957 the fifty-three-year old British actor turned down producers Albert "Cubby" Broccoli's and Harry Saltzman's offer to play the super spy on screen in a series of films. Grant was now to the point where he was getting paid seventy five percent of the gross revenues of each movie. Some in Hollywood said he was richer than NATO. He was willing to do one movie, not five, and the two producers realized they needed somebody cheaper. - read more...

Creating a First Impression - An entrepreneur had just opened a new office. He was sitting idly at his desk when his secretary announced via the intercom that a Mr. Jones had arrived to see him. "Show him right in!" the new businessman replied. - read more...

Lessons From a Canine Guest House - On and off over the last few months I've been looking after a friend's dog. A week here, a few days there - that sort of thing. - read more...

This is Good! - The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life (positive or negative) and remarking, "This is good!" - read more...

Fall is the Time to Plant Garlic - Fresh garlic is a staple in many kitchens, and good cooks know that a hint of garlic can enhance many dishes. The pungent bulbs are incredibly easy to grow and homegrown garlic will be far better and keep longer than what is sold in the supermarket. - read more...

Massage as a Therapy - Massage as a therapy is not being taught in massage schools. This in itself is a travesty because of what massage therapy may do for most anyone in pain. - read more...

The Birth of the Chocolate Chip Cookie - Adrift in our memory banks are the smells and tastes of the food of our childhoods. One whiff of something familiar coming from the kitchen and we are instantly kids again. No food is more closely aligned with that of childhood than the chocolate chip cookie. Warm and gooey, hard and crunchy, filled with nuts or deliciously plain, the chocolate chip cookie embodies all that is sweet and wonderful about childhood. - read more...

Solving America's Drug Problem - The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, "Why didn't we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?" - read more...