Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Mango is my Last Name, Ataulfo is my First Name This week marked the arrival of a welcome trend in advertising. Inasmuch as the Footloose Forester is suspicious of many of the deceptions in marketing techniques, the new...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Gulf Between Subjectivity and Objectivity There is no line between subjectivity and objectivity. There is a gulf. People often speak out with the pretension of authority in their voice, a loud din of force...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Searching for the Right Ingress One of the frustrations that we all share in our lives is our personal limitation on how to broach a subject, how to open a conversation, how to respond,...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On The Map…Again!!! Maps, mapping, staring at maps, and using them as informative tools have always been integral to a footloose wanderer who usually consulted with them before planning an...
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On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Messages to the Brain People immediately respond to things that jump out at them. It is human nature to jump back when you’re about to step on a snake, or to wince when you touch a hot item. On seeing...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Geographic Coordinates with Pictures to Match If you drop in at digital coordinates 44.293805, -105.526084 this summer, you will enjoy the time and leave with a few pleasant memories. And maybe a full tummy. ...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek 42.657, -76.211 Had the Evidence The Wisconsin Glacier that pushed south into NE United States about 12,000 years ago left many unacknowledged gifts that are part of our everyday life today. Geologists may quibble...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek 13.813, -89.632 *** 11.638, -8.229 *** Other Adventures If you look very closely at the satellite photograph taken at latitude N 13°48' 47.7" and longitude W 89°37'51", you may detect two...
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On the road…again! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Memory Lapses and Voids Everybody has some degree of short-term memory loss, and everybody has some degree of long-term memory loss. We wonder why we forget some things and worry a bit...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Lone Wolf (As Leader – As Follower) Everyone knows a lone wolf but not everyone is a lone wolf. The lone wolf may get the reputation as an innovator, which might be a compliment, or as...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Everyday Science and Math, for a Forester High school math and science courses are required for admission into forestry schools around the country. At some stage of their careers, most field foresters will have in their...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Coffee Plants, Coffee Cherries, Coffee Berries, Coffee Beans, Coffee Makers, and Coffee Cups The whole world knows something about coffee. Many millions of people drink it every day. A few million are involved in growing it, hundreds...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Underwater The very modern and accurate mapping capabilities found in Google Earth are a joy to manipulate and to have at the ready, anytime the Footloose Forester wants to check out the status of before-after photos...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Tenderfoot Practicing Living The tenderfoot practicing life, who also calls himself the Footloose Forester , had another dream last night and decided that he would share the fragments of his innermost thoughts as...
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On the road, again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Gold is Buried at … His dying words were numbers that I cannot remember, but as he feebly put the hand-written scrap of paper into my hand, I knew that the...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Better Bagel and Brand Loyalty We all have our favorite foods. But we don’t all agree on what those dishes or recipes are, thus the eternal discussions about foods and one of the...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Stories, Blogs, Essays, and Peer Review The recent decision of Facebook to encourage account holders to contribute text and photo stories in a special window of their website is an invitation to greater sharing of...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek A Tenderfoot Again For many adults, the Boy Scouts and the adventurous times in Boy Scouts was an enlightening, formative period in our lives. It was also a time of informal education that had...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Accidental Rock Hound Another dream, another chronicle about those bits and pieces of reverie that bob up and down in the soup of memories. The first ingredient in the soup of last night’s dream...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Gerunds Headlining the News What do the words Reducing , Deterring , and Obstructing have in common? All of them are gerunds, all of them are words suggesting restriction, and all of them are the leading words used...
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