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On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Déjà Vu and Cognitive Dissidence, All Over again   Youse guys and gals out there, the ones wit da big vocabularies, might get a chuckle or two about how dis jerk who calls himself the Footloose Forester...

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Political Etymology   Maybe you don’t follow politics closely, as perhaps most people would acknowledge.  But politics follows you.  Sometimes you can spot the tail, and sometimes you are not quite sure.  The political stalkers don’t tell you...

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...

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   Searching for the Right Ingress   One of the frustrations that we all share in our lives is our personal limitation on how to broach a subject, how to open a conversation, how to respond, and how to...

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,...

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...

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   Fantastic Sale - Moral Compass   Own a piece of history.             Order your very own Moral Compass.                         Designed and field tested in the USA.                                     Made in China by factory representatives of noted fabricators.                                                 Don’t miss out. ...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     The Healthcare Lifeboat   When does a chronicle belong in the Ancestors portfolio?  Where does a story about Education belong?  Who should be the general audience for a personal legacy tale about Growing Up Years?  Obvious humor...

  A to Z Word PotpourriChronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Maybe I Didn’t Make Myself Clear   As the months and years fly by, some of us think back to those times when we were in heated discussion about things that are important.  Sometimes the topics were...