Our Courtship and Early Marriage

Our Courtship and Early Marriage
I was just turning sixteen when Ralph Green and Golden Adams, two good-looking Airmen, spent a couple of hours flirting with me in the Union Pacific elevator (I was the elevator operator) and Golden asked me for a date that very night. Golden had a car, so we drove around the...
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Start Light, Star Bright

Among the memories I cherish most are those of the hours I spent flying small airplanes.  I earned my Private Pilots License late in life – in my mid-`40’s - and I flew regularly until I was in my early `70’s; amassing a total of just over 2,000 hours in the...
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My first professional job and living away from home

Judith tells us about working in Brisbane with her first professional job in the Department of Air.  She flatted with her brother and his friends and they had many an adventure travelling to and from Nambour along the Bruce Highway in her brother's Triumph Herald.  She also shares a story about...
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A Major Life Event: Writing became a passion

A Major Life Event: Writing became a passion
Living in the country one had to make one's own entertainment. In this episode ALice talks about how writing became more than a hobby to her.
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The RT Probe

The RT Probe
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The RT Probe   When we finally decided that clam hunting was going to be a steady part of our future lives, Thu and the Footloose Forester decided that one Hawaiian Sling was not enough...
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Clamming in Chincoteague Bay

Clamming in Chincoteague Bay
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Discovering Chincoteague Bay- An Update February 2012 ...The future excites us and stirs our thoughts about what the next adventures will bring. While many of the older Chronicles of a Footloose Forester were about memories captured...
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Even Hitler Had One Good Idea

Even Hitler Had One Good Idea
Soon after assuming power Adolf Hitler, knowing like many of our politicians today, how to curry favor with "the masses," ordered Frederick Porche to build a "Peoples Car."  An affordable vehicle for those masses whose adulation he needed.  It truly was a good idea.   Porche, knowing where his bread would...
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"Breaker, Breaker"

"Breaker, Breaker"
Like its long-ago predecessor, the CB Radio, the Internet may drown in its own capability. A mosquito dies under a fatal slap and its demise will be reported, analyzed, and dissected in some niche on the Internet within minutes. Amateurs and professionals race to see who will be the first to...
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My First Serious Relationship

I had a grand total of one relationship before I found my true love in life, my wife Christine. I needed to give her as much love in this prelude as possible so I can mitigate the potential wrath that could come my way after writing the rest. I LOVE YOU...
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Foot Stomping

I was an A+ foot stomper.  Got sent to my room so many times, so many times each week, actually.  You ask why did I continue to stomp my foot when I knew the “punishment”?  Well, I’ll tell you.  There were two reasons.

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The Pearl Earring

The Pearl Earring The gold engraved invitation stood propped on the sitting room mantelpiece for several weeks and Dame Roma's secretary had been very gracious when I had accepted her request for my husband and I to dine with her at Government House at a black tie dinner. After much agonising...
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