Trans fat and your heart are like oil and vinegar, they just don’t mix. This fat raises bad cholesterol levels while lowering the good ones. It also increases your risk of heart disease, and ultimately sends you tumbling down to an early grave. Trans fat is mostly found in partially ...

Carol Adler and her son, Taylor Thyfault, texted regularly and quite often.  He once texted that he loved her and that she was his best friend.  She loved her son’s mischievous smile and his endearing, magnetic personality.  He was a forward thinker which prompted him to make a list of ...

For the average American, Thanksgiving is a day of feasting on turkey and pumpkin pie. Then others choose to be absorbed in football, completely forgetting what the day is all about. For some it is the day before “Black Friday” when they can’t wait to be the first in line ...

My daughter missed the bus this morning.  It happens.  She is 10 years old and just not a morning person. We really didn’t do anything differently.  I am a stickler for the usual with her “ wake up” routine.  This morning, poor baby, was just moving slower than a little ...

“C’mon Ma you have got to try it” I pleaded to my elderly Mother. I don’t know how my Mother lasted this long without ever using the internet, but enough was enough! I thought. “Ok” she said reluctantly settling down by the computer and slowly putting on her reading glasses ...

God reigns on high and His glory covers the heavens and fills the earth. Who is like the Lord there is no other before Him. Let us call to memory that there is no God like our God. God who calls the beginning from the end and the end from ...

I admit I am a “Black Friday Shopper.” My sister and I get up long before the sun.  We trudge through the masses in search of treasure. We laugh at the idiots who fight over Furbie  (actually saw someone go down once over that one!), and we love it.  I ...

Jesus said, ‘Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they?’  Matthew 6:26 (NIV) If you have been reading the various articles on The Bottom Line ...

The fool, or jester, of medieval times was an interesting character. He spent his life entertaining noblemen and kings. He had a great wit and humor about him, which he needed in order to wear his garishly colored garments and his “fool’s” hat with its jingling bells. But perhaps his ...

A recent video posted on Facebook has received over 15 million views. In it, a young French father explains the horror of the recent terror strikes in Paris. While his words are wise and creative, they fail to fully explain where our safety and protection truly lies: Watch the video ...