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Global Payments Credit Card Processor Data Breach

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Apr 5th, 2012 | No Comments

According to recent news reports, Global Payments, a third-party card processor for Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, has suffered a data security breach. Hackers gained access to accounts of up to 1.5 million cardholders, stealing account numbers and other key information. The information...

How Answering Your Phone Can Lose You Business

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Mar 27th, 2012 | 5 Comments

Times are tough. And I admire people who have that spark of “get up and go” and who will do whatever it takes to promote their small local business. However, if you don’t have the sense that God gave a goat and can’t properly answer your phone, all of that hard work will likely...

Figure Out Your Own Workout Pace

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Musings of the author on Feb 20th, 2012 | No Comments

Just read something that reinforced what I already knew about my own body and energy levels. And that is to exercise at your own pace and intensity. New research from Pennsylvania State University show that women who exercise at a moderate intensity are more likely to benefit in the long run, compared...

Our Lives Are Determined by How We Choose to Live Our 525,000 Minutes Each Year

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Jan 5th, 2012 | No Comments

My friend Todd Durkin shared this with me a couple of days ago. He read it somewhere and shared it with his “tribe” and I wanted to share with mine! This New Year gives us the gift of more than 525,600 minutes. Many of us say we “don’t have enough time”, but for this next...

Remember Grandma’s Apron?

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Dec 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Somebody sent this to me in an email today and I wanted to share it. I don’t think our kids know what an apron is. The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath because she only had a few and because it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and aprons required...

Cinnamon Coffee Cake

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Nov 15th, 2011 | No Comments

I just read today that the number one holiday cooking headache is synchronizing the meal so that all dishes are ready at the same time. I absolutely love cooking Thanksgiving dinner and being a passionate and creative home cook I have never had any problems with that but I do love to hear the stories...

Apple’s Steve Jobs Dead at 56

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Oct 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Statement from Apple’s Board of Directors: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he...

Email Forwarding No-no’s

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Jul 6th, 2011 | No Comments

Email Etiquette Here is the thing about those tons of forwarded emails that we all get from well intentioned family, friends or co-workers. They are annoying. They are messy because of all the forwarding. Some of them are entirely inappropriate or politically or sexually charged. If you are forwarding...

Vacation Time – Not Work Time

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Jun 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Keep Work at Bay While on Vacation Like any other hardworking professional, you deserve to enjoy your downtime away from the your hectic working world. Being committed to providing your clients if you are self-employed, or your employer with excellence is certainly admirable. But everyone needs downtime...

Early-Bird Money Saving Tips for the Holidays

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Nov 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

I woke up this morning and had one of those “You have GOT to be kidding!” moments when I realized that Thanksgiving is just days away and Christmas is right around the bend. Time is short for a lot of people and given all that is going on with our economy, money is probably tight, but who...

Juan Williams Fired From NPR???

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Oct 21st, 2010 | No Comments

We, the taxpayers, pay for NPR! Juan Williams was fired from NPR for saying what people candidly think. Frankly, I am SICK of political correctness. Do I agree with Mr. Williams? Almost never. Do I believe that he has the right to say what he thinks? In the words of Sara Palin, “You betcha!”! This...

Some Spam is Pretty Yummy

Posted by Denise Griffitts in Featured Articles, Musings of the author on Oct 17th, 2010 | No Comments

No, not the stuff in a can, although if you fry it enough and hide it under a thick layer of onions and rye bread it might be edible. No, I am talking about the spam that seems to come at us from all directions in our email boxes, our WordPress websites, our telephones…. it gets tiring. But every...