by design | Aug 25, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Vacation By Dr. Jim Ferguson Is the notion of a vacation irrelevant if you are retired and every day is a holiday from work? I retired from medicine after 45 years and a lifetime of meeting schedules. But now the publisher’s deadline for this weekly column is my only...
by design | Aug 18, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Consequential By Dr. Jim Ferguson I was 12 years old when I first visited Washington, D.C. I was a sixth grader then and part of my elementary school’s safety patrol trip. I remember little of that experience except climbing the 897 steps of the Washington Monument....
by design | Aug 11, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Bots By Dr. Jim Ferguson Sometimes the most difficult thing about writing is composing the first sentence because it’s difficult to know where to start. In “The Sound of Music,” Maria was having a difficult time teaching the Von Trapp children how to sing. So she...
by design | Aug 4, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Human I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. Albert Einstein By Dr. Jim Ferguson School has started for my grandkids, and I tell them school is where you go to learn how to learn. In other words, you learn the tools for a...
by design | Jul 28, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Evidence Something that furnishes proof. Merriam-Webster Dictionary By Dr. Jim Ferguson What if everything you’ve been told or led to believe is proven false? What if evidence shows that Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton conspired in 2015 with FBI...
by design | Jul 21, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
The Pack Mule By Dr. Jim Ferguson Every week, I wait for my weekly essay to find me, and it always seems to do so. And sometimes a picture is better than prose to introduce a message. This is why memes are so effective. My West Coast daughter and family were with us...
