by design | May 23, 2022 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas When you lose that trust it changes the institution fundamentally. It’s like an infidelity that you can explain it, but you can’t undo it....
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...
