On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Fliegerhorst 2017
The old Fliegerhorst Kaserne of World War II is becoming a modern housing complex. Based on the construction activity seen on the most recent Google Earth satellite photos, the old military barracks...
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On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
The New Fliegerhorst
The old Fliegerhorst Kaserne of World War II is becoming a modern housing complex. Based on the construction activity seen on the most recent Google Earth satellite photos, the old...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
The Beautiful Benjamin Fig
At last the time has come to share information about the most beautiful tree in the world. You will have to use some of your navigational skills...
Chapt 5 1965-1968 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
During ‘our” graduate school days, Keith and I had moved from Lawrence, Kansas to Champaign, Urbana, where Keith began his graduate studies in earnest at University of Illinois. Scott was a year old by then and soon would...
When the generations of a family stop interacting on a daily basis the spontaneity of the interactions begins to suffer. Likewise, family visits with an elder under care become stilted and awkward, and ultimately less frequent.
Changing the dynamic of the family visit to become engaging, rewarding, purposeful and...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Why Footloose Forester Won’t Write A Novel
As snippets of clichés and other prompts for new chronicles popped into his head, the Footloose Forester decided that at least two of them were determining factors in his decision...
On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Canal House
The intention of this chronicle was to document with a Google Earth screenshot one or more of the places where the Bengal Tiger and the Footloose Forester once lived. When they were...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Fantastic Sale - Moral Compass
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Professor of Physiology at Ohio State University
During ‘our” graduate school days at U of I, we had lived very frugally on...
On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Hacking the Russian Environmental Report
Once in awhile 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...
On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
You Remember Birdies and Eagles
One of the differences between daydreams and night time dreams is the simple proposition that daydreams are induced recollections and night time dreams are involuntary. We may awaken to recall something...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
The Healthcare Lifeboat
When does a chronicle belong in the Ancestors portfolio? Where does a story about Education belong? Who should be the general audience for a personal legacy tale about Growing Up Years? Obvious...
Along the Elizabeth River waterfront on the southwest corner of Town Point Park in Norfolk, Virginia, is the Armed Forces Memorial that features 20 letters written home by U.S. soldiers and sailors who died serving their country from the Revolutionary War up to and including the Gulf wars. The letters...
After returning from Viet Nam in 1970, my only skills were shooting people and playing music. With those limitations, combined with the humiliation of returning to an unsupportive America, it was impossible to find work to support my wife, Christine, and newborn son, Justin.
So, I got together with two...
From my birth until I was 18 I always lived next door to my mothers parents and brother and sister. Starting in Bronx, NY and including our move out to Tucson, AZ I always had a large family looking after me....
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...
Get ready to hear some very interesting facts about little Raymond....
Chapter 4 - What do you know about your parents' upbringing?...
Famous people get all the adoration and recognition. But Peanuts creator, Charles Schultz, helps us recognize the real heroes in our lives, whose story should be part of our own legacy. The questions below should inspire you to share a legacy story!
Just read the questions to this quiz. You...
-- By Jane W. Topham
This month we are spotlighting a very prominent couple of Salem, Stephen M. and Linda B. Rees. Stephen’s parents, Spencer and Luzenia Rees, lived in Loa, Utah and he was born in Salina where the nearest hospital was located. Linda’s...
