On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Generosity of Poor Farmers Mental images of generous people often appear in the dreams of the Footloose Forester . As it happens, they were all poor farmers...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Adventures in Surveying Another dream, another chronicle about disparate events in the past that somehow got stitched together in the dream itself. This chronicle combines a bit of forestry field work, a bit of practical applications...
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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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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 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...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Adventures by the Numbers The time has come whereby adventure stories of the past will sport a new look. A small change but a modern update will be made in the way their locales will be...
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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 B y Dick Pellek Pozzolana Essays of the dream-induced variety are the hardest to compose, perhaps why the hours of fitful sleep are so often interjected with bits of reverie. Call them scraps, figments, bits, or vague ideas but there...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Closer Look at a Picture Worth a Thousand Words Flamengos Tree Nursery, Cape Verde Some people are proud of their humble beginnings. Others are impatient to move on and forget about the past. It was many...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Into The Volcano The seminal Chronicles of a Footloose Forester has always been an unscheduled mélange of essays, stories, dreams, and adventures. If he had his way, the adventures would predominate and the stories would follow. The dreams...
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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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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Shared Legacy It is my privilege to contribute a legacy story about a man long dead, for the benefit of a nephew who was born long after his uncle died; and...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sharing My Legacy Story Creating a positive legacy is the responsibility of the person who shows up each and every day to put their best foot forward; to do their best; to...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek C is Cape Verde A three-year sojourn to the windblown islands of Cape Verde came shortly after a 20-word telegram of a job offer was accepted by telephone,...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Santo Antão, Cape Verde There were so many adventures packed into the memory of Santo Antão that Footloose Forester sometimes forgets that he was a paid employee on various work assignments there. Perhaps the most...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Aroma Therapy About a decade ago, the hip, the yuppies, and the avant-garde community came up with the commercially salable idea of aromatherapy. Most big shopping malls in major cities now have at least one...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Celebrating The 46th Anniversary Of Our Honeymoon This contribution is a quicky, so its composition definitely will be edited and updated just as conveniently soon after my soulmate and I return from celebrating...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Name Dropping The Footloose Forester has been a practicing iconoclast for most of his adult life. No, make that most of his entire life. As a teenager, he spent plenty of time musing about...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Confession Of A Practical Joker The text of the following spoof was culled from the black heart of a practical joker who calls himself the Footloose Forester. He sometimes risked official displeasure with...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Softball Overseas Part I They say that when you go overseas you should plan for downtime by developing hobbies. Softball was not exactly a hobby, but a sport that enjoyed wide popularity around the world and...
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