On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Me Like Play Kahuku Another dream, another opportunity to chronicle about a few of those cherished memories. This one is about golf. “Play golf when and where you can” was one of the admonitions that...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Virtual Trekking With Google Earth When Google, Inc. changed their policy in December of 2015 in regard to the open use of satellite photos within their Google Earth computer program, it opened the floodgates for...
Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujubaEssays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Pets, Weeds, and Invasive Plants There are so many ways to think about the animals and plants of this earth that it becomes haltingly tentative for anyone to embark on a meaningful discussion with...
Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujubaEssays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Chemistry Is Hard The urge to air out old memories often reaches a level high enough to prompt another self-punishing chronicle by the Footloose Forester. This one might belong in the Confessions category of...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek In and Under Flying Things Re-printed from Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester Memoirs might flow as narrative accounts to those who compose them, or be read as non-fiction histories by those who...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What’s the Address of the Devil’s Tower? Most young adults these days know enough about GPS technology to find a street address in a strange city by just looking it up on a smartphone, an...
Guns Take Their Toll Posted by Dick Pellek in Tragedy On the road again..! Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Guns Take Their Toll In these times of a national subconscious fear about the next mass shooting, we all...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Adventures In Banking Among the many small decisions one makes when mapping out their life, some of them are truly inconsequential but others develop into long-lasting, practical choices. A person may wish to drive a...
On the road…again!!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek TDY Getting out of the house once in a while is a desire that resembles an itch. Most people get that itch to travel on occasion, and soldiers confined to a military bases are no different. With the Footloose...
On the road …again!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Stupid Coconut! When the senior Swiss researcher saw a coconut that had washed ashore at high tide, he was delighted to know that he would soon have a fresh snack. Despite being in a tropical forest that...
Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujubaEssays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Change Your Razor Blade—On Demand Sometimes finding a news story to comment on is not always an obvious topic of interest to everyone. An essay about razor blades is far from a general interest...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Baby and the Bathwater The continuously improving technologies of digital coding and wireless communications via computer have opened up opportunities for individuals that most of us do not fully appreciate. As the innovators, techies,...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Golok Shortly after his arrival on the tiny island of Pulau Peucang in 1975, one of his Indonesian counterparts mentioned that if the Footloose Forester intended to go into the forest, he needed to...
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Let’s Go Shake The Apple Tree The Bengal Tiger was already in the branches of the Pennsylvania apple tree in the autumn of 2015 when she connected with the expression she had used...
On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Cracking the Lilly Fuchsia Case Youthful CSI investigator Jaelyn (Mushroom) Hunt(er) lived the CSI credo of following the evidence. Those essentials are: observe the evidence; gather it up; display it during an initial examination; secure it in a...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek An Indelicate Subject Sometimes it takes the stimulus of an ignorant post or meme on the Internet to finally push the Footloose Forester over the edge. As repugnant and as repulsive as the subject matter is, he thinks...
Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujubaEssays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Seagulls And The Clams Our friend Thanh Mahoney related an amusing story to us about one of those “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” events that might have seemed bizarre when it unfolded, but is...
Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujubaEssays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek It Pays To Read Labels Advertisers have been doing it for decades. Putting nutritional information on milk cartons and cereal boxes, assembly instructions on the back of pre-fabricated office furniture pieces, and even pictures of...
Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujubaEssays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek A Shared Legacy It is my privilege to contribute a legacy story about a man long dead, for the benefit of a nephew who was born long after his uncle died; and for the man's...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Really Ticked Off Some people fear ticks because they might carry Lyme Disease. Others fear them because they are hard to spot on your outerwear and may crawl into your inner garments. If and when they attach themselves...
