Dick Pellek

Please explain yourself

Please explain yourself
On the Road…Again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Please Explain Yourself   If someone asks you to “please explain yourself”, it is likely within a setting in which someone wants an answer to an issue that personally involved you.  The one wanting...
Continue reading
0
  39 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
justice Police actions
LinkedIn Pinterest
39 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

This Batter Wears A Sombrero

This Batter Wears A Sombrero
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    This Batter Wears a Sombrero (Debate With Self)   An unrequited debate, nay; an unstated debate that popped up in last night’s dream is all about softball.  More specifically, it is about unlimited-arc, slow-pitch softball. ...
Continue reading
0
  431 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Kenya softball
LinkedIn Pinterest
431 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Walter Van Tillburg Clark

Walter Van Tillburg Clark
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By 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...
Continue reading
0
  183 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Writing Nevada California
LinkedIn Pinterest
183 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Flipping the Bird

Flipping the Bird
On the road, again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Flipping the Bird  It took an Internet newsfeed story to spark this attempt at a chronicle based on a similar gesture, both acted out some decades ago.  The Internet story in early 2025 was...
Continue reading
0
  205 Views
  1 Comment
Tags:
snakes Senegal
LinkedIn Pinterest
205 Views
1 Comment
Dick Pellek

The Sausage Makers

The Sausage Makers
On the road...again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The Sausage Makers   Of the many reveries about those years in the poor country of Cape Verde, the fragmented tale about the Austrian sausage makers is likely to be full of holes, like a...
Continue reading
0
  236 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Bengal Tiger Austria Cape Verde
LinkedIn Pinterest
236 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Long Arm of the (Slovak) Law

Long Arm of the (Slovak) Law
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The Long Arm of the (Slovak) Law   Spoiler Alert:  This chronicle is as much a reflective episode in modern reality than an admission of a miscue that cost the Footloose Forester a bundle of...
Continue reading
0
  362 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Travel Slovakia Hungary
LinkedIn Pinterest
362 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

On Empathy

On Empathy
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   On Empathy   As the Footloose Forester  was describing the routing of his bucket-list road trip to Eastern Europe, his small audience of three listened politely. When he mentioned Auschwitz, Poland; and at that very moment,...
Continue reading
0
  256 Views
  3 Comments
Tags:
Travel Auschwitz
LinkedIn Pinterest
256 Views
3 Comments
Dick Pellek

Grand Theft Wheelchair

Grand Theft Wheelchair
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Grand Theft Wheelchair   At some time in the near future, the Footloose Forester will have to confess that his legs, his wind, and his muscles are not up to each and every task. ...
Continue reading
0
  415 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Tennessee Airlines Travel
LinkedIn Pinterest
415 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Clichés, Memes, and Bumper Stickers

Clichés, Memes, and Bumper Stickers
  On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By 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...
Continue reading
0
  519 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
airplanes WW-II Pennsylvania
LinkedIn Pinterest
519 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

The Two Lakh Homeless of Bombay

The Two Lakh Homeless of Bombay
On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By 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...
Continue reading
0
  433 Views
  1 Comment
Tags:
Peace Corps Pakistan India
LinkedIn Pinterest
433 Views
1 Comment
Dick Pellek

Serendipity of the Day

Serendipity of the Day
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...
Continue reading
0
  656 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
distance learning Forestry Costa Rica
LinkedIn Pinterest
656 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

The Generosity of Poor Farmers

The Generosity of Poor Farmers
On the road...again!!!   Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams   Chronicles of a Footloose Forester    By Dick Pellek       The Generosity of Poor Farmers     Mental images of generous people often appear in the dreams of the Footloose Forester .  As it happens, they were all poor farmers...
Continue reading
0
  778 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Ceylon Cape Verde Senegal Mali
LinkedIn Pinterest
778 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Gaslighting, Sophistry, and Transference

Gaslighting, Sophistry, and Transference
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Gaslighting, Sophistry, and Transference   The season of political shenanigans is getting into full swing.  As if we haven’t already become numb with the rhetoric going back and forth, the major political parties are...
Continue reading
0
  466 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
polarization of politics
LinkedIn Pinterest
466 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Bird Watching Fail

Bird Watching Fail
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Bird Watching Fail     A story without a purpose, a story without a photo, a story devoid of observations—is not much of a story at all.  If the readers of these Chronicles of a Footloose Forester...
Continue reading
0
  643 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Virginia
LinkedIn Pinterest
643 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Fake Photo Marries Fake News

Fake Photo Marries Fake News
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Photoshopped Deep Fake Photos and Fake News Get Married 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...
Continue reading
0
  669 Views
  2 Comments
Tags:
photoshop editing
LinkedIn Pinterest
669 Views
2 Comments
Dick Pellek

A Vision From Heaven

A Vision From Heaven ***   ­No Body, No Wings   The Vision Couldn’t Be Seen by Eye   But Through My Humbled Mind   A Beautiful Spirit of Color   That Floated Tirelessly, From Here to There   From its Bottom, Stars Sparkled   And Bright Lights Shone Through  ...
Continue reading
0
  669 Views
  1 Comment
Tags:
dreams
LinkedIn Pinterest
669 Views
1 Comment
Dick Pellek

Why Are The Birds Sending Me Signs?

Why Are The Birds Sending Me Signs?
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Why Are The Birds Sending Me Signs?   They swoop in when they decide to congregate, they pick at their feasts in front of your eyes, and they stay until their leaders tell them to...
Continue reading
0
  799 Views
  1 Comment
Tags:
Virginia Birds
LinkedIn Pinterest
799 Views
1 Comment
Dick Pellek

On Smiles

On Smiles
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    On Smiles   If you are curious about where you might look to personally see almost everybody smiling, you might try a Catholic church, just after the priest says, “Let us show one another a...
Continue reading
0
  710 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Virginia New Jersey Pennsylvania story teling
LinkedIn Pinterest
710 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Placerville, One Stop On The Road Of Forest Consultancy

Placerville, One Stop On The Road Of Forest Consultancy
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Placerville, One Stop on the Road of Forest Consultancy   It must have been the spring of 1964 when the Footloose Forester returned to Placerville, California. In a recent dream, he recalled showing up before...
Continue reading
0
  651 Views
  1 Comment
Tags:
forest consulting California
LinkedIn Pinterest
651 Views
1 Comment
Dick Pellek

Chinese Party Balloon

Chinese Party Balloon
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By 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...
Continue reading
0
  639 Views
  1 Comment
Tags:
China politics
LinkedIn Pinterest
639 Views
1 Comment
    Previous    
1 2 3 4 5 6