Dick Pellek

Playing Bumper Cars Around the Moon

Playing Bumper Cars Around the Moon
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     Playing Bumper Cars Around The Moon   It was a bright moon-lit night and the Footloose Forester could hardly look away as he approached the side door to his basement apartment in Auburn, California.  He was probably...
Continue reading
0
  703 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Forestry California
LinkedIn Pinterest
703 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Mystery Mango

Mystery Mango
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Mystery Mango   It should not take an archeological discovery for the world to share the identity of one of the most delicious fruits to ever grow on a tree.  A still-mysterious mango variety from...
Continue reading
0
  779 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
tropical fruit Viet Nam Australia Hawaii mangoes
LinkedIn Pinterest
779 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Eidetic Episodes and Hard-Wiring in the Brain

Eidetic Episodes and Hard-Wiring in the Brain
  On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Eidetic Episodes and Hard-Wiring in the Brain   The link between the word eidetic and the concept of hardwiring in the brain is a marriage of understanding of why humans remember some things and...
Continue reading
0
  802 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Forestry Montana
LinkedIn Pinterest
802 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Floyd Was A Tie Hacker

Floyd Was A Tie Hacker
  On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Floyd Was A Tie Hacker    Charles Kuralt and Bob Simons had a few things in common.  Both were writers who gained their inspiration in places far from the office.  They did not tell...
Continue reading
0
  1156 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Kootenai River Forestry Montana
LinkedIn Pinterest
1156 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Mango is my Last Name

Mango is my Last Name
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Mango is my Last Name, Ataulfo is my First Name   This week marked the arrival of a welcome trend in advertising. Inasmuch as the Footloose Forester is suspicious of many of the deceptions in marketing techniques, the new...
Continue reading
0
  855 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Hawaii tropical fruit Pakistan mangoes
LinkedIn Pinterest
855 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Major-Colonel

Major-Colonel
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Major-Colonel   One aspect of being a contractor in service to US Government agencies was the overall accommodation we were given to housing, the use of post exchanges and government-operated transportation, and other services.  That...
Continue reading
0
  798 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Viet Nam Pakistan
LinkedIn Pinterest
798 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Subjectivity vs. Objectivity

Subjectivity vs. Objectivity
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    The Gulf Between Subjectivity and Objectivity There is no line between subjectivity and objectivity.  There is a gulf.  People often speak out with the pretension of authority in their voice, a loud din of force...
Continue reading
0
  798 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
essays Writing
LinkedIn Pinterest
798 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Forests as Picture Puzzles

Forests as Picture Puzzles
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Forests as Picture Puzzles   Open a picture puzzle box that shows the picture of a green coniferous forest on the outside, and every adolescent and adult in the family will discover an unsorted pile...
Continue reading
0
  650 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Cape Verde Forests and forestry
LinkedIn Pinterest
650 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Lake Tahoe, Silver Dollars, and Piñon Pine

Lake Tahoe, Silver Dollars, and Piñon Pine
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek  Lake Tahoe, Silver Dollars, and Piñon Pine   Those halcyon days working as a consultant forester in California in the 1960s salted the memory banks of the Footloose Forester with many, many fond reveries of adventures.  Some jobs were...
Continue reading
0
  996 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Forestry Nevada California
LinkedIn Pinterest
996 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

My Camel is Named Uunt

My Camel is Named Uunt
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    My Camel is Named Uunt   As Father George Westwater told it, when President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Bashir, the camel driver, what his camel’s name was… well.  Bashir was on camera, sitting atop a camel as the...
Continue reading
0
  624 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Bahalwalpur Peace Corps Pakistan
LinkedIn Pinterest
624 Views
0 Comments
Larry Brock

Path of Least Resistance

1/31/2021   “The path of least resistance is rarely the path of wisdom” Tim Cook, Apple CEO 2021   Ask yourself what path are you one now that could be a 10% upgrade or a 20% upgrade. What will be the difference at the end of the 10% journey and the...
Continue reading
0
  639 Views
  2 Comments
LinkedIn Pinterest
639 Views
2 Comments
Dick Pellek

Just Walkin' Along

Just Walkin' Along
  Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Walkin’ Along My Merry Way Some people may think that walking from the airport to town is unusual, but walking was a job requirement of the Footloose Forester . Once you left the road to enter into the...
Continue reading
0
  927 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Russia Germany Indonesia
LinkedIn Pinterest
927 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

Rowboat to Troopship

Rowboat to Troopship
On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Rowboat to Troopship   A landlubber like the Footloose Forester always felt at home with the sound of granite sand under his boots, the firm landings of his bare feet in beach sand, and the...
Continue reading
0
  635 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
NJ Netcong Venezuela Costa Rica Indonesia
LinkedIn Pinterest
635 Views
0 Comments
George Cormier

My Time at Parris Island

My Time at Parris Island
When I became eligible for the World War II draft, I was declassified from 1A to 1B because I was married. The war had ended and soon the Korean war started, and for the same reason I was ineligible. I was married with children. When our sons became of draft age,...
Continue reading
0
  610 Views
  2 Comments
LinkedIn Pinterest
610 Views
2 Comments
Dick Pellek

501 Moosic Road, Old Forge, Pennsylvania

501 Moosic Road, Old Forge, Pennsylvania
On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   501 Moosic Road, Old Forge, Pennsylvania   Just as some tunes and jingles run recurringly through our heads when a new song or advertising slogan begins to catch on, the address of a former teacher...
Continue reading
0
  765 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Netcong High School Netcong New Jersey
LinkedIn Pinterest
765 Views
0 Comments
Tom Cormier

A Serendipitous Visit

Anyone who's been writing legacy stories here in the Legacystories.org archive surely must've read one or many of Dick Pellek's amazing stories.  Dick has been a member for over a decade, and has read many new stories from members as they are published, commenting on most. I never met Dick but...
Continue reading
0
  681 Views
  1 Comment
LinkedIn Pinterest
681 Views
1 Comment
Dick Pellek

BEA, BOAC, Pan Am, Where Did You Go?

BEA, BOAC, Pan Am, Where Did You Go?
In the air…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek       BEA, BOAC, Pan Am, Where Did You Go?   As he anticipates another 10,000-mile round trip sojourn to Hawaii to keep a promise to his deceased wife, the Footloose Forester is getting lost...
Continue reading
0
  777 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Early Childhood Teaching Africa Asia
LinkedIn Pinterest
777 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

On The Map...Again!!!

On The Map...Again!!!
    On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek     On The Map…Again!!!     Maps, mapping, staring at maps, and using them as informative tools have always been integral to a footloose wanderer who usually consulted with them before planning an...
Continue reading
0
  857 Views
  0 Comments
Tags:
Travel mapping Forestry
LinkedIn Pinterest
857 Views
0 Comments
Charles Napier

Preserving Your Legacy

We are planning new Legacy services for 2022.   Legacy Stories wants to enable everyone to record their stories and pass on their wisdom to future generations.   STAY TUNED ! 
Continue reading
0
  751 Views
  0 Comments
LinkedIn Pinterest
751 Views
0 Comments
Dick Pellek

On Ambitions

On Ambitions
On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    On Ambitions     Only when the Footloose Forester  reviewed the presumed acknowledgment/comment box for Ambitious about students in his class, as reported in the for-profit website called Classmates, did he even think about himself...
Continue reading
0
  937 Views
  1 Comment
Tags:
volcanoes NJ Netcong
LinkedIn Pinterest
937 Views
1 Comment
       
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10