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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Dick Pellek

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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Dick Pellek

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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Dick Pellek

Obelisk in Shadow

Obelisk in Shadow
On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Obelisk in Shadow Some people look at a rock outcrop and just see rocks. Others look and don’t see anything, and they say so. Yet others look and see the manifestations of natural history; they...
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Dick Pellek

Picking Your Own Tropical Fruit

Picking Your Own Tropical Fruit
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek         H is for Hawaii When it was over, the Footloose Forester blurted out in a public forum that the past six years were the shortest years in his life. They were probably the happiest years, as...
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Dick Pellek

Dona Thu Stares Down A Marine

Dona Thu Stares Down A Marine
On the road…again! Afgha nistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Gorée Island, Senegal During a 2-month extension of the Environmental Impact Statement phase of the Senegal River Basin Project, wife Thu joined with Footloose Forester and packed her things for a new adventure. We were...
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Dick Pellek

The Wisconsin Glacier Leaves Us Reminders

The Wisconsin Glacier Leaves Us Reminders
On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Living on the Terminal Moraine   After a short one-page article about terminal moraine boulders in Netcong, New Jersey was published in the geology section of About.com in April 2011, it now becomes apparent that...
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Dick Pellek

Snowless (almost) Kilimanjaro

Snowless (almost) Kilimanjaro
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   T is for Tanzania Many people know that Mount Kilimanjaro is located in East Africa and that there is snow at its summit. At 19,341 feet above sea level, the top of Kilimanjaro is a sacred...
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Dick Pellek

Joe Fodor bails out, then survives Stalag-17

Joe Fodor bails out, then survives Stalag-17
On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia      Chronicles of a Footloose F orester By Dick Pellek            Originally published on 2 January 2012                 A Story of War Joe Fodor is going on 90 now, but you would never...
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Sandy Jones

Resolutions - a life long journey of self-improvement

Resolutions - a life long journey of self-improvement
This week’s prompt is: Do you make New Year resolutions? If not why? If so, what are your 2012 resolutions? First off - Happy New Year!! And happy 2012! Most nights, I stay home - avoiding the drunks on the road.  Last night, I went to dinner with my best friend,...
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Ruth L.Meacham Memorial

How Grandpa Folkers died

How Grandpa Folkers died
Grandpa Folkers would sit hunched over in his rocking chair.  He was quite a heavy man.  He stood a head taller than grandma Folkers who was quite short.  It was wintertime, and he was sitting in the chair.  There was no heat in the bedroom, and the kitchen had the cookstove,...
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Susan Darbro

Holiday Traditions: My Ominous Door

Holiday Traditions: My Ominous Door
As usual, I’m about a month behind. The story prompt for November 11 had to do with holiday traditions, and here I am sitting down to write about this on December 20 th .... Maybe you can relate. There’s a door in the back of my mind behind which lurks an...
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Charles William Spratt

December Week 3 prompt What Changes Have I Witnessed WOW

As you look back, what are the three most incredible changes you have witnessed? Legacy Story Prompt December Week 3 OK ; I’m not as old as some of you but I’ve been around the block a time or two. I’ve worked on copying machines most of my life so I...
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Lillian Cormier

Oh, For The Good Ole Days. Not!!!!

Automatic washing machines as upposed to wringer washers.  Clothes dryers instead of clotheslines,  (although I loved the way the clothes smelled when I took them off the lines) ,  Pampers, which I never had the pleasure of using,  Garbage disposals (now that's a big one),   Medicine for anything that ails you, it...
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Sue Hill

Forgive

Forgiveness is such a powerful action.  I call it an action, because it takes conscious effort to go through the process of forgiveness.  It doesn't just happen by itself, and it is actually an attribute to which we should all aspire.  The result of an unforgiving spirit is bitterness.  And bitterness...
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Diane Mason Gray

On either or both sides, what kind of work did your grandparents do?

I was indeed fortunate to know both my maternal grandparents and my paternal grandmother. My paternal grandfather, Stephen Harry "Dick" Mason, died many years before my birth, so I only know what I have been told and what information I located doing genealogical research in the Prairie County, Arkansas, Courthouse in...
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Suzanna Rawlins

If I Could go Back and Talk to Ancestor Who Would it Be and What Would I Ask...

Really - only ONE ancestor?? Come on - you have to know me better than THAT!!  Me who is working on a book about time travel and going back to watch my ancestors and maybe interact with them.... (still working on plot and story line).  So I cannot limit it to...
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Millard Don Carriker

To Forgive or Be Forgiven?

Forgive?   I have much more to be forgiven for than to forgive.   The years between 1950 and 1979 are filled with things I did to hurt other people.   It wasn’t deliberate or malicious but that doesn’t excuse the fact that I did hurt people, sometimes severely.   I either didn’t know or...
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Suzanna Rawlins

FORGIVE...7 simple letters but a tough word for sure

To FORGIVE.... that is tough... Different from forgetting... I have had to learn that to forgive someone of something doesn't mean you have to forget they did it.  And that is a HUGE difference as well as a HUGE gap to cross... A tough lesson to learn and actually follow.  I...
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Ruth L.Meacham Memorial

A Christmas Memory

The Spirit of Christmas is the Spirit of Christ. As my son, Golden, was reading a story from Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it triggered a memory in my mind that had been long forgotten. On Christmas...
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