by design | May 6, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson In the opening minutes of the movie Saving Private Ryan, an old man is leading his family on a pilgrimage to Normandy and a WW II cemetery. He kneels at the grave marker of the lieutenant (played by Tom Hanks) who led a band of army rangers to...
by design | Apr 8, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I have always had a sense of wanderlust. And I have been blessed and able to exercise this passion for travel. They say that people’s dogs often look like their masters. My dog Jack is a feist, a terrier breed. He really doesn’t look like me,...
by design | Mar 18, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Groucho Marx once quipped, “These are my principles; and if you don’t like these, I have others.” I started thinking about this old joke as I picked up a penny in the Kroger parking lot. My wife thinks I’m crazy, but I like to go to the grocery...
by design | Mar 11, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson “The world stands out on either side, no wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, no higher than the soul is high…” Edna St. Vincent Millay I think it’s easier to comprehend the vastness of the ocean (and the...
by design | Mar 5, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson If you’ve got an itch, you’ve got to scratch it; but should you? To borrow from the Bard, “To scratch, or not to scratch; that is the question.” Maybe I’m focused on skin lately because my own nose is so red and painful. Recently, my...
by design | Feb 25, 2013 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I get as frustrated as anyone else when I hear that our government has given some researcher precious resources to study the mating preferences of fruit flies or build robot squirrels; I didn’t make these up. And there are hundreds of even more...
