Life With Ferris: Best Your Spouse - Life Lessons With Ray Murphy Monday, April 26, 2021 - by Ferris Robinson
The late Ray Murphy
The late Ray Murphy gives his daughter away after teaching her the importance of besting her husband
Ferris Robinson
I will be married 35 years this summer, and have to credit the late Ray Murphy for some of that. I knew Mr. Murphy in the early years of my marriage, when he led a Bible study for a big group of women. We were all in the thick of crying babies and dirty diapers and endless Groundhog Day days. When our husbands finally came home from working long and hard days, we shoved a baby or two their way, and acted irritated that they d been gone so long. Or, at least I know I did.
Life With Ferris: The Importance Of Being A Good Steward Of Our Planet Monday, April 19, 2021 - by Ferris Robinson
Before there was an official worldwide Earth Day, my little hometown of Jasper, Tn. held its own version of this important day: Sparkle Day. Already surly and disagreeable as a pre-preteen, I did not willingly don plastic gloves and troll the neighborhood picking up tin cans and plastic wrappers and soggy unidentifiable things that were possibly dirty diapers: My mother made me. She also made my brother and sister do the same, arming us with big plastic bags for gathering refuse. Akin to an Easter egg hunt (her inaccurate description), Sparkle Day offered a few instructions, but the only one I remember with a perverse fascination was not to pickup Kleenex. I wanted to know why, and my mother’s explanation that they were full of revolting, vile germs made them extremely appealing.
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Life With Ferris: Rock City Isn t Just For Tourists Monday, April 5, 2021 - by Ferris Robinson
Matthew Dutton with Maloria at Rock City
Villa Aviana by Jack Denton
Ferris Robinson
Rock City is not just for tourists. Neither is it only for folks to wander through its immaculately landscaped natural beauty, leashed dogs in tow. Although it is a wonderful spot to be awed by the wonders of nature and the artistic hand of man, it’s also a spot for the art connoisseur.
Rock City now has several sculptures in the midst of breathtaking arrays of native blooming plants. Ranging in size and subject from a silver metal structure, perhaps depicting a gingerbread house, to an abstract metal work that seems to defy the laws of gravity as it balances on a lush green lawn, all of these extraordinary pieces were created by artists who were simply asked to let the natural beauty of Rock City’s Enchanted Trail inspire them. And indeed, as one gazes at each piece, somehow he finds hi
Life With Ferris: Patches
Vanessa Cullars with Patches, the Lookout Mountain community s adopted cat
Nobody knows for certain how the little stray cat got to the town center in Lookout Mountain, Tn., and not many know the story of how the little feral cat found a home. His home is not in a house or an apartment with a human, but it’s a home all the same.
Erick Wood, former owner of Talus, began putting a few food scraps and a bowl of fresh water out for the little timid creature. Vanessa Cullars, who worked next door at the former Yessick’s location, began talking gently to the cat regularly. Soon named Patches, the cat kept his distance and scurried away every time a human was in his sight, although he gobbled up his food.