History is a chorus of voices and everyone deserves a chance for their voice to be heard by future generations. The human voice is an amazing thing with a full range of subtleties that give us our unique identity. When listening to an audio recording of a loved one something magical...
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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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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester B y Dick Pellek The Scientific Method In Everyday Life There may be a lot of truth in the idea that we all forget about 80% of what we learned in school. Most of us, however; are satisfied...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Incoming Tide There is no telling by looking around you whether or not the tides matter to most people you talk to in the tiny enclaves surrounding Chincoteague Bay, Virginia. To be sure, the watermen...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Grass Clippings, Fertilizer, Green Manure Tis now the season when homeowners around the country get out the lawnmowers, fertilizer spreaders, and weed whackers in their yearly quest to make their lawns more...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Drs. and Doctorandus Titles, degrees, and honorifics are important in some circles to distinguish the achiever by the achievement, the apparent status of the individual by the designator before the name, or the...
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On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Talk Story to a 2 nd Grade Spanish Class Sharing ideas with children is an important part of their formative education. So is showing them things that are all around us; and teaching...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Beautiful Earth, One Slide At A Time A beautiful place, but don't ask where (one of 70 slides in a Power-Point presentation file [ Rare-et-magnifique---.pps ] One of the problems in making our stories...
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Keith received approval to enter graduate studies at the University of Illnois! It really was going to happen! We borrowed a farm truck from my brother, Richard Tice, and loaded it full with our belongings. It reminded me of 'Ma and Pa Kettle" - even complete with a washtub...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Chemistry Is Hard The urge to air out old memories often reaches a level high enough to prompt another self-punishing chronicle by the Footloose Forester . This one might belong in...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What’s the Address of the Devil’s Tower? Most young adults these days know enough about GPS technology to find a street address in a strange city by just looking it up on a smartphone, an...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Baby and the Bathwater The continuously improving technologies of digital coding and wireless communications via computer have opened up opportunities for individuals that most of us do not fully appreciate. As the innovators, techies,...
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The demographic tsunami of baby-boomers is breaking on our shores and will soon swamp the elder care industry. The flotsam left in the wake of this phenomenon is an exponential increase in cases of dementia and Alzheimer’s. While there is no cure as yet, Reminiscence Therapy (RT) can...
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Why Legacy Talks came into being: A survey of Baby Boomers and their parents, conducted by the Allianz American Legacy Study, were asked to rank their priorities when it comes to passing down an inheritance. Despite the perceived importance these generations place on leaving a legacy, only a small fraction has...
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It all started when we were faced with making room for my son and his family to visit for Thanksgiving. My husband brought out four boxes of unsorted photos and said, “This is your job.” Yikes! I knew better than to start the sorting process with company coming, but cleaning up...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek b2_ap3_thumbnail_are you there? b2_ap3_thumbnail_ come in, thumbnail_! If you have a story to tell, but you don’t seem to have an interesting way to start, try to kick start it by seeking out an...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Who Are Graduates Of The School Of Hard Knocks? All too often conversations about who had (has) it rough in life devolve into unstated debates wherein speakers subconsciously fish for words to express their plight. ...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Desperation of River Blindness Some chronicles of the Footloose Forester are brewed during dreams. This one escaped from a daydream. It will be a sad story, but one that should be shared. It...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rain Shadows and Rain Forests On the one hand, you have those who believe in global warming; and on the other side of the divide are those who are currently labeled as climate change deniers. ...
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