From Monday, May 13th, 2023, is, what is the furthest you have ever traveled? Or to phrase it better. What is the furthest I have ever traveled? I believe it was in April of 2007. I traveled to Hong Kong, into China immediately across the border from Hong Kong and then...
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If I could choose any talent, what would I choose. I would choose the god given talents I have. I would not want to change the talents I would have liked to have known what my talents were earlier in my life. But I would not change those talents. I have...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek ...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Inductive Reasoning and Third-Grade Science Class The dream came first, the details came later, and the story came last. In a very pleasant dream last night, there we were, sitting on heavy wooden...
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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...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Espionage and Transparency Espionage Espionage, spying or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of ... The on-line dictionary definition...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek At a Forward Fire Base in II Corps When the Footloose Forester sits down to pen a chronicle, there is usually a specific place, adventure, or dream at the heart of the plan....
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Resentments Dream The disjointed catalogue of resentments came back in a dream. They were not invited but the snippets and the stories just showed up, one at a time. Such is the capability of the human...
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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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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Would You Believe It, If I Told You? Would you believe that…a lawmaker in Indiana wants to prosecute doctors who perform abortions? Would you believe that abortion was legal in the US for over 40 years?...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Billfish Tournament There he was in my dream, Tom Hanks. He was representing Princeton in the Annual Ivy League Billfish Tournament. That is to say, he was Princeton’s fisherman who was responsible for selecting the bait,...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Glass Half Full? Half Empty? Life holds more than a few mysteries. We can plainly see a water glass that is half full/half empty, but the question is, which is it? Some people...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Unbelievable Tales Isaac Azimov wrote more than 500 books. In his fruitful career, he also managed to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry. So, when a colleague at the car rental company said that...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Muscle Man Upon waking, the Footloose Forester often contemplates if and how he will start a chronicle story from his mélange of snippet memories of his life On the road…again!!! As serendipity would...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek L is for Lesotho Three days on horseback is just enough time to get the point that not everywhere in Lesotho can be reached by road. Pretty sure that a tank could reach most of the...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Quantitative Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Critical Analysis Chemistry is fascinating but it is hard. A chem major earns respect for the mere fact of choosing a field that contains as much mystery, uncertainty, and challenge as...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Doing Wheelies in Lion Habitat One vivid memory that never got a good jump start into a tasty chronicle took place in the Aberdares Region of Kenya over 25 years ago. The long...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Don’t Believe Everything You Read, Even in the Dictionary On the general theme of words matter, today’s chronicle is a short essay on why readers should not rely on everything they read as being...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Courts-Martial Anyone who has spent time in military service has rich, if unorganized mental files of their time in uniform. Truth be known, those whose one or two-term enlistments are just as likely to...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek More Cryptic Coordinate Numbers Little did he know that a hand-held GPS reading during Episode #10 of Breaking Bad would lead to a converging coincidence in the art of storytelling. The starring protagonist in...
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