Ruth L.Meacham Memorial

A Tale of Two Miracles

This week's story prompt:  Do you believe in miracles and if so, have you ever witnessed one?  Describe-- brought to mind two different situations that I consider to be miracles. Miracle # 1:  When I was a little girl we were  living on Seventh East in Salt Lake City, Utah, and...
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Golden V. Adams Jr.

Cameron's Miracle

Cameron's Miracle
Cameron Scott Adams was born 28 Feb 2005 to our oldest son, Aaron, and his wife Lori in Orem, Utah at Timpanogos Regional Medical Center, just a couple of blocks away from where Aaron and Lori were living in their newly renovated duplex.  Cameron was their firstborn, and he was a...
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Dick Pellek

DikDik is (was) a millionaire

DikDik is (was) a millionaire
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Zaire The Footloose Forester had many a stopover in transit countries that hardly count as experiences that deserve to be included in memoirs. A few stopovers, however, are linked to other events that are burned into the...
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Deadline On Guam

Deadline On Guam
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Deadline On Guam Of the many lucky breaks that made life a lot simpler and saved a ton of money at the same time, going to Guam was one of them. It really was planning, and not...
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Dick Pellek

Virtual Flight Around A Volcano

Virtual Flight Around A Volcano
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Virtual Flight Around A Volcano   Foresters rely on more than their feet. A few foresters have more experience in helicopters than most professionals outside of the military services. This Footloose Forester certainly does. One memorable...
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Charles William Spratt

Miracles WOW I Am One

Do you believe in miracles and if so, have you ever witnessed one? Describe. WOW ; You guy’s keep coming up with tough ones. Gee in 1979 after my first wife died in childbirth leaving me with a six year old and a three year old son’s to take care of...
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Joseph Pirolli

Looking Back--

....My life has been something like a" card game" you do the best you can with the cards you are dealt. While married, I worked as an Electrician and also studied to get an Engineering Degree. I was inspired by my Department Manager who set up the interviews with a College. My wife,...
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Dick Pellek

Haiti In Tears

Haiti In Tears
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Haiti in Tears The Footloose Forester knows there are plenty of times when emotions seeped out from his subconscious to the daylight of his true nature. Sometimes in the past, he challenged danger to prove to...
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Janice Coover

Are Miracles still happening?

God does not forsake his children whether the children entered this earth years ago or recently. We read of biblical times when Christ was on the earth and performed miracles like healing the sick, the blind, the crippled, feeding thousands with only 2 loaves of bread and 5 fish, walking on...
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Dick Pellek

Exercises For Geezers: The Birthday Challenge

Exercises For Geezers: The Birthday Challenge
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Birthday Challenge When he was a teenager, the future Footloose Foreste r saw a small graph in a local newspaper that showed how physical capability peaked in adolescence, then continued on a plateau until age 55, then...
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Janice Coover

New Year's Resolution

I, like so many other people, am going to start fresh commitments, or renew old ones, for the start of this new year.  My hope is to concentrate on goals that will better myself, and renew my commitment to learn more about my ancestors and who they really were through personal...
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Dick Pellek

Blue Rose of Kenya

Blue Rose of Kenya
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Blue Rose of Kenya Young Lucy Pellek was given the privilege of naming our pets. She grew up chasing Dolie around our house in Cape Verde, so was comfortable with the idea of having a dog...
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The Tiger And The Bear

The Tiger And The Bear
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   The Tiger and The Bear   Lots of couples have nicknames for one another, and Footloose Forester and his soul mate were among that group. Thu’s mother was known by some people as Tiger Dao, and...
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Faithful Four-Footed Friends in Saigon

Faithful Four-Footed Friends in Saigon
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester B y Dick Pellek   Faithful Four-Footed Friends in Saigon   Humans tend to crowd out unpleasant thoughts and retain the memories of the happy times in their lives. Living in a war zone in Viet Nam for almost three...
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Diane J. Adams

Faith in Every Footstep

The question " What do I know about the faith of my grandparents?" is a powerful question. I have asked myself many times, "Can I live up to the legacy of the faith they exhibited?" "Can I pass to my future generations an example of the faith that they showed in...
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For The Birds

For The Birds
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   For the Birds   Just when he thought he had seen everything at his bird feeders outside the rear bedroom window, the Footloose Forester yesterday got a treat that he would never have predicted. The previous...
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Picking Magic Mushrooms With Jaelyn

Picking Magic Mushrooms With Jaelyn
  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Magic Mushrooms   My father told me about wild mushrooms way back, but it was a Hungarian immigrant in New Jersey who convinced me that if you know what to look for, you need not...
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Susan Darbro

Blindsided by Joy: Mom's "British" Comes Full Circle

Sometimes unexpected joys come to us that are so far from being anticipated that they completely blindside us. I suspect God might specialize in using our children to bless us in this manner. During our son Daniel's growing up years I frequently put on my best (admittedly awful) British accent by...
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Looking for Suzie

Looking for Suzie
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Looking for Suzie When we lived in Honolulu, Thu and the Footloose Forester chose to seek out a church where we would be comfortable. The very old, traditional, but decidedly frumpy cathedral in Waikiki had...
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Up the Zugspitze

Up the Zugspitze
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Telling Stories With Pictures A book with pictures always adds something positive to the storyline. Short stories usually don’t have pictures but that does not mean that pictures or sketches don’t suit the short-story genre. With...
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