by design | May 16, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures. The Psalmist By Dr. Jim Ferguson As I begin this essay on my seventy-first birthday, I wonder, “What happened?” It doesn’t seem so long ago that I retired from traditional medical practice, my...
by design | May 9, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~ Aesop By Dr. Jim Ferguson We are connected like never before. As I sat down to begin this essay I got a call from Betty’s Beauty Bar in Lansing, Ohio. Perhaps it was election day confusion because I...
by design | May 2, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
To have a good marriage is luck. To have a great marriage requires hard work. Becky Venable Ferguson Two are better than one… Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not easily broken. Ecclesiastes 4: 9, 12 By Dr. Jim...
by design | Apr 25, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
To [teach], or not to [teach], that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. Hamlet abridged (William Shakespeare). By Dr. Jim Ferguson...
by design | Apr 18, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. Henry Ford By Dr. Jim Ferguson There is a new kid on the block in Knoxville, perhaps unknown to...
by design | Apr 11, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Never forget: Democrats cheered rioters for eight months before they were “outraged” by January 6th. Bradford Williams What if everything you’ve been told proved to be a lie? What if the town crier of your truth (CNN, NYT, Washington Post, MSNBC...