Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
A Day in the Cholistan Desert
We met in a sparsely furnished office building whose windows rattled when the wind blew. Two young and eager Pakistani soil scientists had been assigned to escort us to one...
Storys tagged in Pakistan
On the road…again!!!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Pani Pulau
Snippets of memory, the stuff of legacy stories… That was the theme of a recent chronicle by the Footloose Forester. Today another snippet of a distant memory was jarred loose during a period...
Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Life Lessons in the Mahjong Tiles
Who among frequent computer users does not occasionally play a game or take an anonymous on-line quiz? Call the practice a diversion, a habit, or an addiction…but one thing is...
On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
The Peace Corps Jocks
Nobody would believe it if you told them that a rag-tag crew of a mere handful of Peace Corps Volunteers would whip the Pakistanis in both basketball and volley ball...
On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
A Practical Lesson in Compass Reading
Being around the action in Viet Nam for almost three years led to plenty of predictable moments of violence. But some of the earlier and later encounters were...
On the road again..!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
A Simple Math Problem
How do you divide 6 chapattis into equal parts to provide equal portions and a simple lunch for four foresters? The math is simple enough but the problem, at...
On the road… again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Things Ain’t Always What You Think
What would you think if you walked into a well equipped chemical laboratory during the middle of a work day and didn’t see white smocked chemists and...
