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Ever had that nervous moment right before submitting an essay, thinking, “Wait, did AI write this? Do I need to check for AI text?” If you’ve ever wondered whether your paper might trigger suspicion, you’re not alone. As artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Gemini become more common, the line between human and...

AI writing tools like ChatGPT and Bard have revolutionized content creation. But while they’re powerful, their output can sometimes feel flat, mechanical, or too perfect. That’s where TextHumanizer.org steps in, an innovative AI Humanizer designed to take over when AI tools fall short at delivering the warmth, nuance, and authenticity of human writing. With just a...

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 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...

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...

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    Whiskey, Leave the Bottle!   Those familiar lines, to the devotees of Gunsmoke and its many recorded re-runs, are thought triggers that spurred subsequent actions among the many sodbusters, wranglers, drifters, gunslingers, and others who passed through the...

    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...

On the road …again!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   On Writing a Paper, or a Report, or a Book, or a Post-It-Note   People who have writing chores as part of their job descriptions have to follow certain guidelines when it comes to attaining clarity, information, accuracy,...