On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By 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. ...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By 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...
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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...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Fuzzy Wuzzy Was A Bear Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy Was he? 2 nd Grade Teacher: “Now children, for your homework I want you to go home...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Tongue in Cheek, Pen in Hand For some time now, the Footloose Forester has wanted to add a humorous chronicle to his collection of seminal musings. In the LegacyStories.org website that serves as...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bucket Lists Oftentimes it takes a trigger for us to reflect on our own views, opinions, and actions. Forming those views and opinions are the raw ingredients leading to intended actions. Mostly we keep views to...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Bug Zapper Not many people who lived in the valley where the Saó Jorge dos Orgaós research station was located had electric power. In fact, it would be accurate to say that the only people...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Parody Defense Only once in a while does the forgotten, third-rate would-be crafter of parody who calls himself the Footloose Forester get a response to his missives. He would prefer kudos but, alas, when the infrequent...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Smoking or Non-Smoking? Many moons have risen and set since the last time that the Footloose Forester was in the mood to write a chronicle that belongs in the Humor genre, with an unstated theme of “you just...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Fantastic Sale - Moral Compass Own a piece of history. Order your very own Moral Compass. Designed and field tested in the USA. Made in China by factory representative of noted fabricators. Don’t...
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As a child my family, like most American families at the time, would take a road trip somewhere during our vacation, stopping in various places along the way. This time my parents took my sister and myself to Canada, with the obligatory stop at Mount Rushmore along the way. Once in...
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I've always had a complicated relationship with horses. I love them but that doesn't mean they necessarily liked me back. I think they can tell I don't really know what I'm doing. One time I was on a trail ride. Mom was paying for horseback riding lessons. We only went a...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek My Aching Prostrate Lies Prostate Before You When the Remedial English teacher decided to find out where her new students ranked in regard to their grammar skills, proper use of words...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Some Things You Can Make Up People get bored quite easily. To counter that, many a youngster with an active mind tries to attract attention with their own personality traits that shout out, “I’m...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Ali Baba And The 40 Peeves Well, doesn’t that get your goat? You have got to be kidding! Why do they do that? This doesn’t make any sense! How dare he! There are...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek When Mixing Metaphors Sure, we sometimes get away from our game plan and jump into the frying pan, but hey, who’s perfect? When passions run deep, we should take solace in the fact that still...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Electing the Winner of the Talent Contest Dear Granddaughter Roxanne, The year 2014 ushers in the rebirth of the old fashioned talent contest. Plans for the inaugural launch of the national gala later this...
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I have a confession to make: I am a picky eater. Now, this will come as no surprise to those who live with me, but grownups are supposed to act, well, grown up. And one of the things grownups are not supposed to do is be picky about food. It simply...
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“Do you have a compost pile?” the man on the phone asked me. I thought this was odd—a survey about composting? Buying time, I responded, “Excuse me?” The disembodied voice repeated the question, then, for clarification explained, “It’s your neighbor.” Ah, the man who lived behind the wall, next door to...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Why Meeza Is Soooo…Cheep First off, for those who don’t know heeza’s background, heeza is not a survivalist or a mountain man. Heeza is a pragmatist and a realist who wants to share a...
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