Jim Murray

Time to become creative

How many times when you were moving through the decades of raising a family and building a career did you say that you were going to write the greatest novel when you retired? · Now that you are retired and the time do you wonder if you could do it? Many of us promised ourselves ...

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The President's Grandmother

One of the aspects of Toastmasters participation is that the educational mandate includes leadership education.  True leadership development does not happen through manuals, it starts in the home and works its way among family, and then community and finally leaves it mark and fo ...

Big Vision Needs Bigger Ground

The big announcement at our college came in this summer with the announcement of the departure of our College President at the end of the year.  The long-term vision of this leader was to move the college to university status.  In everything he was doing and with his visionary pu ...

Do We Really Need Men?

I ask this knowing I’m a man, and I’m sure a lot of men are feeling the same as me. Have we outgrown our usefulness? Should we start planning the move to one gender? This is an important issue, and I’d like an answer before I start calling myself Dorothy. · I’ve given this a ...