On the road…again!!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Two Lakh Homeless of Bombay A chronicle about a strange city after dark, remembered from the window seat of a public bus at night, and daydreamed after a passage of 55 years…well it may be disbelieved. ...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Memes Can Be Inspirational Creating memes is a modern way of making a point without spending a lot of time or risk losing the potential audience. Memes as reproductions of classical quotations are worthy reminders of...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Tags and Links Create Networks A string of related blogs is a useful way to search and research the characteristics of personal writing styles and to quickly understand what inspires and moves some writers, as well...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Self-Quiz About People Who Mattered In an exercise of introspection about who and how some people in his life influenced him, the Footloose Forester first started with a copied list of salient issues about categories of...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Round Pegs and Square Holes PhD Committee: Now, Candidate for the PhD, I want you to give this committee your views on the idea of putting round pegs in square holes and square pegs in round holes. ...
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What Copilot Knows About You, A Function Of What Is Asked In everyday life, the answers you get depend upon what you ask, and who you ask. With the burgeoning growth of Artificial Intelligence, we have...
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Pluggers The Pluggers in life have been my own chosen groupies. They know that they are not elite, highly skilled, ultra talented, or the fastest runners on the track. But they know that if they have good...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek A Solitary Tree Is Not a Lonely Tree When casual visitors to Internet sites mention planting trees as a useful practice, the whole gamut of their past experience and current expectations may come into their minds. ...
A Vision From Heaven *** No Body, No Wings The Vision Couldn’t Be Seen by Eye But Through My Humbled Mind A Beautiful Spirit of Color That Floated Tirelessly, From Here to There From its Bottom, Stars Sparkled And Bright Lights Shone Through ...
On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Hectarage The stimulus to attempt another chronicle of the Essays variety owes its impetus to both a previous posting on social media and to a dream about that posting. Hectarage, as the purported major factor in the...
On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek On Deceptions Many of the games and puzzles one finds on the Internet are enticing time wasters. And they are usually rife with hidden hacks, deceptions, and subterfuges that promote in us a sense of personal accomplishment. When...
On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek On Smiles If you are curious about where you might look to personally see almost everybody smiling, you might try a Catholic church, just after the priest says, “Let us show one another a sign of our...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Chinese Party Balloon The humor category of Chronicles of a Footloose Forester is pretty skimpy, not that there is no humor in the world. Lest the world forgets, however; more than a few comedians have enough gravitas to make us laugh at ourselves...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Espionage and Transparency Espionage Espionage, spying or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of ... The on-line dictionary definition of espionage is...
On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Glass Half Full? Half Empty? Life holds more than a few mysteries. We can plainly see a water glass that is half full/half empty, but the question is, which is it? Some people will answer HALF FULL...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Quantitative Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Critical Analysis Chemistry is fascinating but it is hard. A chem major earns respect for the mere fact of choosing a field that contains as much mystery, uncertainty, and challenge as perhaps most anything...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Don’t Believe Everything You Read, Even in the Dictionary On the general theme of words matter, today’s chronicle is a short essay on why readers should not rely on everything they read as being true, or accurate. ...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Mystery Mango It should not take an archeological discovery for the world to share the identity of one of the most delicious fruits to ever grow on a tree. A still-mysterious mango variety from Australia is surely...
On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Gulf Between Subjectivity and Objectivity There is no line between subjectivity and objectivity. There is a gulf. People often speak out with the pretension of authority in their voice, a loud din of force major about things...