by Joe Rector | Oct 29, 2018 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector The past weeks have been exhausting. No, working hasn’t been difficult; home is still the same, even with son Dallas and his dog Harvey staying with us for a while; the grass has slowed down so that I can keep up with it now. What’s just plain sucked all...
by design | Oct 29, 2018 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Fall is finally here and the chill will turn our unseasonably green tree leaves to warmer colors of orange, red and gold. Leaves are green because of chlorophyll a pigment that absorbs and transfers light energy from the sun and transforms carbon...
by Jedidiah McKeehan | Oct 22, 2018 | Columnist, McKeehan
By Jedidiah McKeehan One of the most important and secretive relationships in the world is that of an attorney and their client. An attorney can almost never divulge what a client tells to them to anyone. Even though communications between an attorney and their...
by Ralphine Major | Oct 22, 2018 | Columnist, Major
By Ralphine Major It was on a Sunday morning at church when she became sick. It had been a difficult pregnancy. The young couple left church and headed up the highway to the doctor’s home. The year was 1954, and Dr. A. D. Simmons was a young, country doctor. The...
by Joe Rector | Oct 22, 2018 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector I was sitting in the waiting room of the hospital in Lenoir City as my wife had a stress test run. It’s not my favorite thing to do at 7:00 a.m. in the morning, but I’d never let my girlfriend drive herself to such an ordeal. What made the ordeal even...
by design | Oct 22, 2018 | Columnist, Moore
By Rosie Moore “O, Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day. If I forget Thee, do not thou forget me.” This prayer was uttered by a soldier before a battle in the English Civil War. His name was Sir Jacob Astly. Some of our days on earth can be like a series of...
