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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Small-Time Fire Fighter   Once again, a dream was the prod to beat a recursive motif chronicle from the cobwebbed mind of the Footloose Forester.   Bit by bit, he knew that a story would...

On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    AI Matey Updates a Chronicle About Smoking or Non-Smoking on Airplanes   The Footloose Forester hopes to share a few thoughts that may be hard to swallow, about how things used to be on commercial...

On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    AI Organizes Memories    As the years go by and the memories expand, the Footloose Forester seeks ways to organize the 600 blogs found in his archives at Legacy Stories.org.  Certain stories and adventures can...

On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Another Volcano, Another Memory   [FF]   AI Matey and I are planning to expand a chronicle about the volcanic eruptions of a shield volcano near Moroni, Comoros. The specific eruption in question was in 1992. ...

On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Perry Sings for his Supper   He had already had his supper at a nearby restaurant, so it is more correct to say that Perry was going to sing after supper.  When two or three...

On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Why Risk Going Down Into Poás?    Today: 5 Feb 2026   FF asks AI Matey what he thinks about a daring lone wolf descent into a volcano in Costa Rica.     [FF]...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Footloose Forester and AI Matey Do Kilimanjaro   Since AI Matey can tell stories more forcefully and with linguistic flair, the Footloose Forester is increasingly convinced that many readers of fiction will understand that sharp...

On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Fli Li on the Menu     Backpackers at the youth hostel in Calcutta were eager to share information about places to stay and what to eat in Bangkok. They were headed west and the...

Some of my favorite childhood memories are tied not to big events, but to the small moments that brought my family together. Back then, we didn’t need elaborate plans or expensive activities; something as simple as a shared game at the end of the day could create a memory that lasted...

On the road...again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Demise of Donald B. Overrocker   You don’t get to know many people well in Basic Training, and that was true for Overrocker. The short period of a couple of months saw us together on five-mile...

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Musings by E-Mail   One of these days the musings that have been piling up in the email archives of the Footloose Forester may get collected into a single document called Musings by E-Mail.  The collection...

On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles 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...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Langouste and Turtle Eggs for Breakfast     Without the dreams, conjuring up a chronicle these days becomes more infrequent. Usually, the dreams are only stimuli to pen a chronicle but they contain enough...

  On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     3 Rattlesnakes, 1 Eyelash Viper, and a King Cobra   At times it takes the threads of eidetic fragments of memory to stitch together a chronicle that is worth putting on paper. The...

On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Fake News and Fake History   Today, AI inadvertently becomes complicit in political controversy.  When the Footloose Forester wanted to check on the timeliness of Copilot (an AI program) responses, in his 25 August 2025...

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By 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...

On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Mental Notes, Map Notes, and Aspirational Notes   Somewhere in the back of his mind, the Footloose Forester usually had a plan, or planned to make a plan.  The next destination might be the travel...

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