On the road...again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Demise of Donald B. Overrocker You don’t get to know many people well in Basic Training, and that was true for Overrocker. The short period of a couple of months saw us together on five-mile...
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek 3 Rattlesnakes, 1 Eyelash Viper, and a King Cobra At times it takes the threads of eidetic fragments of memory to stitch together a chronicle that is worth putting on paper. The dream...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Mental Notes, Map Notes, and Aspirational Notes Somewhere in the back of his mind, the Footloose Forester usually had a plan, or planned to make a plan. The next destination might be the travel plan for next...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Walter Van Tillburg Clark A quick word search of the name above would turn up references to an author whose most famous novel was The Ox-bow Incident. This impromptu chronicle is not about Clark, the author, but about...
On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Placerville, One Stop on the Road of Forest Consultancy It must have been the spring of 1964 when the Footloose Forester returned to Placerville, California. In a recent dream, he recalled showing up before sunrise at a...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Would You Believe It, If I Told You? Would you believe that…a lawmaker in Indiana wants to prosecute doctors who perform abortions? Would you believe that abortion was legal in the US for over 40 years? ...
On the road…again!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Unbelievable Tales Isaac Azimov wrote more than 500 books. In his fruitful career, he also managed to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry. So, when a colleague at the car rental company said that the Footloose Forester...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Playing Bumper Cars Around The Moon It was a bright moon-lit night and the Footloose Forester could hardly look away as he approached the side door to his basement apartment in Auburn, California. He was probably returning from...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Lake Tahoe, Silver Dollars, and Piñon Pine Those halcyon days working as a consultant forester in California in the 1960s salted the memory banks of the Footloose Forester with many, many fond reveries of adventures. Some jobs were hundreds of...
On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Drinkin’ an’ Drivin’ The large refrigerator magnet sent to the Footloose Forester by a female friend (the Best Friend of the deceased Bengal Tiger) was definitely one kitchen item trying to make a point. She knew that...
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Where Am I? The main thought running through his head in another of those disjointed dreams was, “where am I?” A sunny scene flashed by, a few loaded words, another scene in a plain,...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Ghost Towns Part of the allure of being On the road…again!!! in so many rural places was the anticipation of knowing that there were going to be a few ghost towns here and there. Most of them are...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Mantras That Endure Of the many would-be chronicles that have struggled toward a birth on paper, this one about spiritual attachment to mantras, has kicked and squirmed its way, finally, to a nascent birth. The personal mantras of the Footloose Forester have...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The K-Turn and Mountain Roads Our family has a long tradition of learning how to drive from other family members and we all recall episodes of the lessons. The Footloose Forester takes pride in teaching things, and...
On the road…again!!!Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Googling Pyramid Peak Another day, another dream, and another chronicle about nagging problems. The long-festering issue about which screen capture photos from the Internet are free of copyright restrictions welled up again in last night’s dream. Among...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Aesthetic Trees Legacy trees evolve from singular or group specimens that have had, or will become, historical, cultural, or botanical icons. The mystique and mystery of remote forests of towering giants, the wildness of tropical jungles, and the...
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Those Fruitful Lunch Hours Over the years, the Footloose Forester had developed a modus operandi for achieving some of his planned free time activities. He was not unlike other people who had both...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Resentment-update Why do acts of resentment linger in our memories? We remember our most shameful acts, we remember our failings, and we remember our most embarrassing moments. And it is also indisputable that at some level of consciousness, we...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek KMB662…939…4-16 He remembers faces and most names, but not all. Those mental blocks explain a person’s propensity to block certain unpleasant memories but do not explain the inability to recall happy events from the past. When it...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Dirty Rifle Every company in the training battalion at Fort Ord, California had an ongoing but unspoken competition for best company in each training cycle. Basic Training in the US Army in those days of the...
