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On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek  Bulgarian Adventures   Tcveti, the receptionist, bartender, waitress, and Jill of all trades at the Hotel Galant SE of Sofia, Bulgaria served the Footloose Forester his morning bottle of beer.  Бурдаско is a local Bulgarian beer that he ordered...

On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek  On Geezering   Young whippersnappers probably don’t like to be referred to that way, especially by old geezers who defensively show their maturity by the sounds of their creaky bones and by their yellowing teeth.  That is, if they...

On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Manna From The Heavens   Unless you are a biblical scholar, chances are that your understanding of the Bible has lots of gaps about some specific passages and circumstances that you have never personally experienced.  Indeed, faith in...

  On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    Clichés, Memes, and Bumper Stickers   Old Ben and the Footloose Forester were pretty close because Ben was a veteran of the World War II air war against Japan and he might have some stories to tell....

On the road…again!!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   The Two Lakh Homeless of Bombay     A chronicle about a strange city after dark, remembered from the window seat of a public bus at night, and daydreamed after a passage of 55 years…well it may be disbelieved. ...

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...

A film noir is a movie genre that was mostly popular in Hollywood in the 1940s. The attributes of this type of film are cynical characters who are usually doomed from the start. These movies are filmed in black and white and there are used a lot of sharp shadows. The...

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Tags and Links Create Networks   A string of related blogs is a useful way to search and research the characteristics of personal writing styles and to quickly understand what inspires and moves some writers, as well...

As we all know, water is the source of life for all living things. Our body is made up of between 55 to 75 percent water. Our lungs are 90% water while our brain contains up to 76% water. The surface of the earth is comprised of over 70% water, out...

On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester  By Dick Pellek      SERENDIPITY OF THE DAY    Occasional pictures of huge trees with buttresses on Facebook prompted the Footloose Forester to research some selected literature on Costa Rica in an attempt to put a species name on the most...

  On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Self-Quiz About People Who Mattered   In an exercise of introspection about who and how some people in his life influenced him, the Footloose Forester first started with a copied list of salient issues about categories of...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Round Pegs and Square Holes     PhD Committee: Now, Candidate for the PhD, I want you to give this committee your views on the idea of putting round pegs in square holes and square pegs in round holes. ...

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Taking The Ferry   The wanderlust is real.  The people, the places, and the descriptions have since been painted into memory, starting with the wanderlust of an adolescent and continuing through years of daydreams.  In last night’s dream,...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester  By Dick Pellek      What Copilot Knows About You, A Function Of What Is Asked    In everyday life, the answers you get depend upon what you ask, and who you ask.  With the burgeoning growth of Artificial Intelligence, we have...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester  By Dick Pellek   The Pluggers    The Pluggers in life have been my own chosen groupies.  They know that they are not elite, highly skilled, ultra talented, or the fastest runners on the track.  But they know that if they have good...

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     An Open Letter to Copilot, With Revisions   My sincere apology to you, Copilot if I have offended your sensibilities.  When in the past I have taken issue with the disadvantages and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence, I...

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Copied and Photoshopped Deep Fake Photos    Not that anyone cares, but certain “news” feeds on the Internet continue to mislead readers with clickbait gambits to lure them into informational stories that have nothing to do with...

On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Before I Was Born   As much as the Footloose Forester tried to avoid nostalgia in his Chronicles of a Footloose Forester, there are certain images that contain so much personal meaning that it is like swimming against...

On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     A Solitary Tree Is Not a Lonely Tree   When casual visitors to Internet sites mention planting trees as a useful practice, the whole gamut of their past experience and current expectations may come into their minds. ...

On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     The A.I. Cousins Named Siri, Alexis, Cortana (deceased), Copilot, et.al.   Artificial Intelligence is not exactly new in computer technology, but it seems that its applications are multiplying faster than most of us realize.  Based on algorithms...