Chapt 6 1968-1971 At Home in Devonshire Subdivision, Columbus, Ohio In 1967 Keith and I, now in our thirties, were so happy! We had a beautiful house in Columbus, Ohio with three children and our first foster daughter too. Keith’s job at OSU was exactly...
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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 building...
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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 military...
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Acer rubrum To Zyzyphus jujuba 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 to...
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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 be...
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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 productive...
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Marv and I wanting to bag another peak in the San Gabriel Mountains, so we turned to our trusty hiking book and settled on Mount Waterman with a possible side trip over to one of the twin peaks. We made it as far as Twin Peaks saddle, then turned around and...
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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 to...
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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 Google Earth screenshots one or more of the places where the Bengal Tiger and the Footloose Forester once lived. When they were successfully captured...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Fantastic Sale - Moral Compass Own a piece of history. Order your very own Moral Compass. Designed and field tested in the USA. Made in China by factory representative of noted fabricators. Don’t...
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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 the...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hacking the Russian Environmental Report Once in a while 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...
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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...
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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...
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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 appear...
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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 of...
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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.
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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 disappear...
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Get ready to hear some very interesting facts about little Raymond.
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Chapter 4 - What do you know about your parents' upbringing?
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