Jim Murray

Buzzing Around beBee: Mini-Guide for Newbies (New Bees)

                               Mini-Guide for Newbies (New Bees) ·                  What  New Bees Needs to Know to Get Started at beBee · I've been active here for just 5 days and I've made no secret of the fact that I am blown away by beBee. That's what I said in my recent bl ...

My World In Black, White & Shades Of Grey

A couple of weeks ago, when I was in the throes of my late October cold (happens every year whether I need it or not), the only thing I had the energy to do was sit around and surf the Internet. · On Facebook, I noticed that someone had started a black and white photography chall ...

The Black, White and Grey of Leadership

When it comes to trying to understand a turbulent world, with its interdependencies and illogical decisions, it’s easy to become ambivalent. What is right, what is wrong–the proverbial black versus white. As experts like to state, we live in a world of grey. · We can all probably ...

Grave Concerns 1

Have you ever worn black to a funeral? Did you travel from a funeral home to the cemetery in an unbroken procession of cars? Have you ever sent flowers to the family of the deceased? · Why did you do those things? Tradition? Where did those traditions come from? Many of them came ...

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Knife Care: Steel versus Pull Sharpener

In the first post in the Cooking: for Men and Other Culinary-Challenged People hive, Kevin Buckley asked why I had an aversion to a steel. My reply was cryptic. Given the limitations of a comment, that was all I could do.This post is a detailed response to Kevin's question. · A s ...