On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek On Top Ideas for inclusion in the seminal Chronicles of a Footloose Forester come about only infrequently. In his past as an active and ambitious seeker of challenges, the stories and adventures kept abuilding, one episode at...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek The Parody Defense Only once in a while does the forgotten, third-rate would-be crafter of parody who calls himself the Footloose Forester get a response to his missives. He would prefer kudos but, alas, when the infrequent responses come,...
Afghanistan to Zambia Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Google Earth Gets Better And Better This chronicle is a revised version of an earlier story about how important Google Earth has been in not only finding things like a car in a driveway...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Can We Remember? Do We Remember? Should We Remember? People who think often about the past engage in subconscious peeking into their personal histories. They see flashes of happy times, stressful times, sad times, times...
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Different Island, Different Story Being stranded on a tropical or desert island was such a powerful bit of imagery that, even as a young child, the Footloose Forester thought about islands and about being stranded...
On the road...again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek This Was Home For More Than 55 Years A picture can prompt 10,000 words this photo was rejected for inclusion in a book of memoirs because of presumed copyright law violation At first glance, the photo above seems...
On the road...again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek An Old Photo From Home Ask who? what? where? when? why? and how? ...and a story starts to develop The photo above was put into the hands of the Footloose Forester only a couple of hours before it...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Ronny Taught Me How To Throw A Curve Ball Ronny was the oldest of the children in the family. He was the quiet type. His actions spoke louder than his words. Whereas there are some personality types who...
Quinn’s Hill Mrs. Anna Quinn was old and frail. We youngsters who lived on Church Street in Netcong, New Jersey remember her as tiny and wrinkled; and she walked slowly and deliberately. Maybe she was 85, maybe 90. But she was a sweetheart. She was always kind and...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Geography of the Past If it is true that a picture is worth 10,000 words, then the catalog of satellite photos in the archives of the Footloose Forester could develop into a longish travelogue. There is no doubt that...
On the road…again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek Learning The Local Geology Around Netcong, New Jersey OK, maybe he always was a slow learner. For sure he would never deny that he was slow to put things together. So it took 50 years to come to...
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Living on the Terminal Moraine After a short one-page article about terminal moraine boulders in Netcong, New Jersey was published in the geology section of About.com in April 2011, it now becomes apparent that...
