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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Simple Answers: Complex Questions   Did you ever notice that some people in a group get irritated when you give a complex answer to a seemingly simple question? Or, conversely, when you give a simple answer to...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    With Tears in My Eyes Of the many times when melancholia starts to overwhelm his senses, the Footloose Forester is often visited by a couple of stories that can easily bring tears to his eyes.  Although he was...

On the road…again! Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek  A to Z Word Potpourri   The Chronicles of a Footloose Forester were compiled over a number of years, one story at a time. Events, observations, encounters, and episodes were the ingredients in the mix that got filed into his...

Happy To See The Sunshine by Dick Pellek Happy to see the sunshine, Happy to feel the rain, Happy to touch the blossom, Happy to know of pain. Blessed to feel the sunshine, Blessed to taste the rain, Blessed to smell the blossom, Blessed to remember the pain. Entitled to know...

FREE SMART PHONE SOFTWARE     L.A.(Butch) Hibben, CLA _____________________________________________________________________________________ WEB SITE                             www.circlemending.org E-MAIL                                 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. PHONE                                 951 322 5977 _____________________________________________________________________________________ MEMORY NAME                    ANDROID           IPAD         WINDOWS           MAC DROPBOX                   X                     X                  X                       X GOOGLE DRIVE          X                     X                  X                       X ONEDRIVE            ...

  PERSONAL HISTORY INTERVIEW PROMPTS   LIVING LEGACY PROJECT   Prepared by L. A. (Butch) Hibben, CLA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 951-322-5977 www.circlemending.org GENERATIONS Where did your great-grandparents come from? If it was other than the United States, why did they leave their homeland? Where did they live in the United States? What did...

                                                                                                                                                            Why I know there is a God   When I see the beauty of this world, or hear the song of a bird. When the sunshine warms my earthly space, or raindrops fall upon my face When cllean      white snow blankets the trees, and frothy waves roil the seas,...

      On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   My Bid Is 8 Spades   The people are real…the events are real…the circumstances are real…the principles are real…the lessons are real…the story is real; but this story, itself is about a dream....

    NOBODY LIKES A CRITIC By Dick Pellek   FOREWORD   The Mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. Something had to be done, for they lived in such constant fear of her claws that they hardly dared stir...

  WANTED: Hero.  No Experience Necessary ...      Have you ever noticed how the only rotten kids always live down the street?  I mean, YOU're kid… MY kid… they are learning, having problems, working them out.  It is all part of growing up, gaining maturity.  But the kid down the street…...

On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Who Manages The Managers?   The chronicles and personal stories of the Footloose Forester, up to this point, purposely avoided episodes that were critical of others, accusatory, or those that cast aspersions. Although everyone has...

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Sunshine Makes Me Happy   The Zugspitze, the tallest mountain in the Bavarian Alps was exciting to see and exciting to climb.  Warm sunny weather helped a lot and remains as one of the fondest of...

SPEAKING/WORKSHOP       (Living Legacy Project) 6 June – So. Calif. Genealogical Society Jamboree, Burbank “Free Smart Phone Apps” 9-12 July – Gena and Jean Genealogy Journey Cruise to Ensenada TBD 8 August – Corona (CA) Family History Seminar TBD   If you are in the area and want to attend leave...

On the road …again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Affinity With Tigers   Blame it on his favorite uncle.  As a youngster in short pants, the Footloose Forester sometimes heard his mother refer to her younger brother as Tiger; and in reality, her brother Elmer carried the...

On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   A Half-Bar of Soap One haunting memory of Africa will always be the unexpected and personal one-on-one encounter with a villager in a remote part of Mali.  The line of five or six mud huts did not constitute a...

On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   The Serendipity Of Katherine’s Statue Serendipity has always been one of his favorite words. The dictionary definition of serendipity has a few variations; but in general, it means a pleasant, fortunate and unexpected discovery. Finding the wooden sculpture of...

On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    Italy Joe Pellek was the first one to note that the bathroom in our hotel room in Genoa was all marble tile; the walls, the floor, and the quaint bathtub.  Even the floor in the bedroom was marble tile. ...

  On the road… again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   French Bread Why can’t anybody in the USA make decent French bread?  With all due respect to each and everyone whose taste buds may be on a different scale of acceptability from his own, it is at...

  On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   On Being Frugal, or Practical, or Just Plain Cheap Many households contain things that are old.  The older the residents, it seems; the greater the chances that there are more old things on display...

On the road …again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek  Obelisk in Shadow Some people look at a rock outcrop and just see rocks. Others look and don’t see anything, and they say so. Yet others look and see the manifestations of natural history; they see various shapes, colors,...