Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Short Course Building (The Helyar Experience) People who visit social media sites are inclined to reminisce about the old days. They remember growing up in ____ or hanging out with ____ and the allure...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Memes That Miss The Mark These days it is ever so common to see memes posted on social media sites, that we are lulled into thinking that we are seeing pearls of wisdom. In addition, it...
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Essays, Stories , Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Healthcare Lifeboat When does a chronicle belong in the Ancestors portfolio? Where does a story about Education belong? Who should be the general audience for a personal legacy tale about Growing Up Years? Obvious...
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Thirty-nine years old, long-married, father of five children and there I stood, tears welling up in my eyes. No, it wasn’t a family tragedy. My wife loved me, our children were all healthy, our parents were still alive and doing well. But not me. My world was crashing around me. I had...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Communicating on Social Media When I review the number of friends or subscribers that traffic counters on social media sites tell me that I have, it is a bit dismaying to think that...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sometimes I Just Want To Spell It Out With all the fake news coming out of the White House these days, I sometimes want to drop my self-imposed injunction about writing snarky political editorials. ...
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History is a chorus of voices and everyone deserves a chance for their voice to be heard by future generations. The human voice is an amazing thing with a full range of subtleties that give us our unique identity. When listening to an audio recording of a loved one something magical...
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Afghanistan to Zambia Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Google Earth Gets Better And Better This chronicle is a revised version of an earlier story about how important Google Earth has been in not only finding things like a car in a driveway...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester B y Dick Pellek The Scientific Method In Everyday Life There may be a lot of truth in the idea that we all forget about 80% of what we learned in school. Most of us, however; are satisfied...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Incoming Tide There is no telling by looking around you whether or not the tides matter to most people you talk to in the tiny enclaves surrounding Chincoteague Bay, Virginia. To be sure, the watermen...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Grass Clippings, Fertilizer, Green Manure Tis now the season when homeowners around the country get out the lawnmowers, fertilizer spreaders, and weed whackers in their yearly quest to make their lawns more...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Drs. and Doctorandus Titles, degrees, and honorifics are important in some circles to distinguish the achiever by the achievement, the apparent status of the individual by the designator before the name, or the...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Talk Story to a 2 nd Grade Spanish Class Sharing ideas with children is an important part of their formative education. So is showing them things that are all around us; and teaching...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Beautiful Earth, One Slide At A Time A beautiful place, but don't ask where (one of 70 slides in a Power-Point presentation file [ Rare-et-magnifique---.pps ] One of the problems in making our stories...
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Keith received approval to enter graduate studies at the University of Illnois! It really was going to happen! We borrowed a farm truck from my brother, Richard Tice, and loaded it full with our belongings. It reminded me of 'Ma and Pa Kettle" - even complete with a washtub...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Chemistry Is Hard The urge to air out old memories often reaches a level high enough to prompt another self-punishing chronicle by the Footloose Forester . This one might belong in...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What’s the Address of the Devil’s Tower? Most young adults these days know enough about GPS technology to find a street address in a strange city by just looking it up on a smartphone, an...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Baby and the Bathwater The continuously improving technologies of digital coding and wireless communications via computer have opened up opportunities for individuals that most of us do not fully appreciate. As the innovators, techies,...
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The demographic tsunami of baby-boomers is breaking on our shores and will soon swamp the elder care industry. The flotsam left in the wake of this phenomenon is an exponential increase in cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s. While there is no cure as yet, Reminiscence Therapy (RT) can...
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