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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Searching for the Right Ingress One of the frustrations that we all share in our lives is our personal limitation on how to broach a subject, how to open a conversation, how to respond,...
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