On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Courier Another dream-inspired chronicle, but hey! Whatever works. Truth be told, the seeds of many chronicles germinated during dreams but the pre-writing phase was usually shortly after waking, and the first draft started...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Lumper and the Splitter Meet Again The Footloose Forester has been a life-long splitter: dividing seemingly simple observations into more refined, detailed considerations into the possibilities about the presumed complexity of those observations. A photograph of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Let’s Go Shake the Mango Tree, the Cherry Tree, and the Apple Trees Many chronicles of late have been enticed and extracted from dreams and polished up on paper before deciding where the latest one belongs: in...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Let’s Go Bend The Fig Tree The Bengal Tiger first coined the words to the love sonnet “let’s go shake the mango tree” when we lived in Hawaii in the 1970s. She sang that sweet...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hacking the Russian Environmental Report Once in a while when a suspect news report gets aired with a misleading spin, the Footloose Forester goes into one of his petulant moods and yearns to compose a...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What Goes Around Came Around, Again The passing phases of our lives are marked by words and phrases that come into vogue out of the blue, are repeated often by trendsetters and hipsters, and eventually disappear...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Let’s Go Shake The Apple Tree The Bengal Tiger was already in the branches of the Pennsylvania apple tree in the autumn of 2015 when she connected with the expression she had used some...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Seagulls And The Clams Our friend Thanh Mahoney related an amusing story to us about one of those “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” events that might have seemed bizarre when it...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek It Pays To Read Labels Advertisers have been doing it for decades. Putting nutritional information on milk cartons and cereal boxes, assembly instructions on the back of pre-fabricated office furniture pieces, and...
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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 Detecting The Vile In Greenbackville No, this chronicle is not an exposé about sinister happenings perpetrated by vile residents in the sleepy little fishing village of Greenbackville, Virginia. Our fair hamlet of a mere 192...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Where Chickadees and Squirrels Compete People who read some of the other chronicles of the Footloose Forester probably wonder if everything that is written is really true. Yes, all the stories are true, although...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek And Now On Stage …In Order Of Appearance Let me introduce the actors, as they appear on stage. From somewhere beyond the green curtain of shrubbery comes a red-headed woodpecker. He appears stage left where...
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On the road…. again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Reading The Fine Print We all know that there is going to be fine print in contracts and agreements. For the most part, the fine print protects the other party from unnecessary lawsuits, in...
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On the road…again…! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek France Revisited Footloose Forester wrote briefly in his Chronicles of a Footloose Forester about the Comoros Islands, Cambodia and France; but also about how the people and events in those three countries were blended...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What Goes Around Comes Around The first time that the Footloose Forester ever set eyes upon a Zyzyphus jujuba tree was in a desert region in Sind Province, Pakistan. Travelers in the desert...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Serendipity Of Katherine’s Statue Serendipity has always been one his favorite words. The dictionary definition of serendipity has a few variations; but in general, it means a pleasant, fortunate and unexpected discovery. Finding the...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Footprints Lead To Trouble When family and friends asked out of curiosity why the Footloose Forester was in the Republic of the Comoros one year, they became doubly curious in the following years after...
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I have been having to travel a good bit lately for work and was in Atlanta the end of February. As I was riding down the elevator with another woman she commented on my lipgloss and how pretty it was. :-) She asked me more about it and we chatted for...
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On the road again…. Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Maple Trees This timely chronicle belongs in either the “you just can’t make this stuff up” folder, or the “truth is stranger than fiction” folder. To a bridge player, you might call it...
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