Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rainforests or Not? Discussing rainforests is not the same as explaining rainforests and reporting from a rainforest is not the same as reporting about rainforests. Likewise, discussing rainforests does not and should not imply that the reporter or...
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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 of...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Concept of Rainforests When a respondent to the Quora.com website explained why rainforests are so hot and so wet, the Footloose Forester was jolted into composing a rejoinder. The contributor, an airline pilot...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Durian Express On the road again…!!! is an appropriate place to be when the mission is all about the Durian Express. You see, the durian fruit grown in SE Asia and marketed in some...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On the road…again!!! in 2018 On the road again …is not just a line from the Willie Nelson tune of the same name. On the masthead of the older Chronicles of a Footloose Forester , the catchy expression...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Paying for School Essays is Cheating There are plenty of self-help books out there. Some are long and fairly comprehensive. Others are short and to the point. Tips on building, painting, wiring, or baking come in many...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Words Matter, No Matter What Maybe some words attain the distinction of earning copyright protection, maybe some words are so vulgar that they are not accepted in polite conversation, and maybe some often-repeated words are so vapid that...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Googling Pyramid Peak Another day, another dream, and another chronicle about nagging problems. The long-festering issue about which screen capture photos from the Internet are free of copyright restrictions welled up again in last night’s...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Siberia From the Air You can’t see much from the small oval window of a jetliner but if you don’t look out you won’t see anything of the world below. There is much you can learn...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Ezekiel Was a Prophet, Not a Horticulturist Show me the person who thinks that every single word in the Bible is literally true, and I will show you a person who will be hard-pressed to explain...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Moss and Mumblety-peg The game of mumblety-peg is so old that even Mark Twain mentioned it as one of the favorites enjoyed by young boys. It was outdoors, in the summer, and played in the grass. To do...
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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...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Rosewood By Any Other Name Most everyone agrees that truth in advertising is a policy that should be followed simply because everyone wants to know what they are getting and to get what they are paying for. ...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Street Trees and Village Shade There is little doubt that trees beautify the landscape in any large city or small town. Street trees are aesthetic treasures that may be ignored at times but gain attention when they are...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Potatoes, Corn, Wheat, and Rice You probably know as much about rice as you do about potatoes, corn, or wheat. Your consumption of french fries, baked potatoes, potato chips, and mashed potatoes probably puts the common...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Common Sense Many people who opine about common sense probably don’t have a clear idea about what it is and what it is not. If you can’t define it, you should probably stop making reference to...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Few Snippets, The Stuff From Whence Legacy Stories Are Born Ø That time in Germany when Lt. Nick Tompras fired off 250 rounds with a single pull of the trigger. It was an M-60 machine...
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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 clear,...
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On the road…again!!! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Follow the Trail of Breadcrumbs As movie fans and tv viewers know all too well, there are certain lines in the scripts that become classics that develop a life of their own. We subconsciously...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek But Don’t Take My Word For It Trolling the waters of Internet social sites leads to the realization that among the millions of people who choose to respond with comments, there are the cautious ones,...
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