Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Lone Wolf (As Leader – As Follower) Everyone knows a lone wolf but not everyone is a lone wolf. The lone wolf may get the reputation as an innovator, which might be a compliment, or as a lone...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Everyday Science and Math, for a Forester High school math and science courses are required for admission into forestry schools around the country. At some stage of their careers, most field foresters will have in their hands various...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Underwater The very modern and accurate mapping capabilities found in Google Earth are a joy to manipulate and to have at the ready, anytime the Footloose Forester wants to check out the status of before-after photos of construction...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek A Tenderfoot Practicing Living The tenderfoot practicing life, who also calls himself the Footloose Forester, had another dream last night and decided that he would share the fragments of his innermost thoughts as a chronicle. He is...
On the road, again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Gold is Buried at … His dying words were numbers that I cannot remember, but as he feebly put the hand-written scrap of paper into my hand, I knew that the long string...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek A Better Bagel and Brand Loyalty We all have our favorite foods. But we don’t all agree on what those dishes or recipes are, thus the eternal discussions about foods and one of the primary urges that...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Stories, Blogs, Essays, and Peer Review The recent decision of Facebook to encourage account holders to contribute text and photo stories in a special window of their website is an invitation to greater sharing of personal thoughts. The worldwide...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek A Tenderfoot Again For many adults, the Boy Scouts and the adventurous times in Boy Scouts was an enlightening, formative period in our lives. It was also a time of informal education that had its own curriculum,...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Accidental Rock Hound Another dream, another chronicle about those bits and pieces of reverie that bob up and down in the soup of memories. The first ingredient in the soup of last night’s dream was the vision...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Gerunds Headlining the News What do the words Reducing, Deterring, and Obstructing have in common? All of them are gerunds, all of them are words suggesting restriction, and all of them are the leading words used to introduce three short...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Sure, I’m Ignorant and Will Always Be Criticism from afar can cut just as deeply as in-your-face histrionics, complete with sputum and the bulging eyes of the critic. But being called ignorant was never a huge insult for...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek What Do You See? Many chronicles of late have begun with ideas developed in dreams and later polished on paper. A few chronicles like this one begin with a picture and must be probed to reveal the story...
On the road...again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Adventures by the Numbers The time has come whereby adventure stories of the past will sport a new look. A small change but a modern update will be made in the way their locales will be...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Sophistry as a Conman’s Burglar Tool As much as I dislike lies, exaggerations, and fanciful tales that morph into urban legends, the people who use them on a regular basis and know that they work on a fair...
On the road…again!!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Dr. Ben Stout Was My Kind of Guy It is true that having a receptive mood is one of the conditions that is required for the Footloose Forester to even draft a chronicle. If something inside him says, "this...
Pros of Proofreading Many of us wonder why we should proofread when spellchecking is available. Well, autocorrect and spellcheckers are useful but in a limited way. It cannot rely on in place of online proofreading services. It provides additional advantages and benefits to your blogs. Objectivity provided and a new...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Cortana and Artificial Intelligence Corresponding with others through computer-based social media should be easier these days, thanks to artificial intelligence aids like text and voice personal digital assistants named Siri [Apple], Alexa [Amazon], and Cortana [Microsoft]. Ask them a question...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek A Few Anecdotes About Fruits We don’t give much thought to a comment by someone about having sliced banana in their morning cereal or crushed pineapple on last night’s baked ham. Or the fresh papaya that we got from the supermarket,...
A dissertation is necessary to complete before your PhD degree. It is a complex work with tons of difficulties for post-graduation. Bearing all these difficulties when one finishes the dissertation knows the worth and opportunities it will open for them. A dissertation on the PhD level is not an easy task...
On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Concept of Rainforests When a respondent to the Quora.com website explained why rainforests are so hot and so wet, the Footloose Forester was jolted into composing a rejoinder. The contributor, an airline pilot and traveler,...
