Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Flashes of Memory One unplanned adventure was so short-lived that the bits and pieces of the story framework were so scattered throughout his latest dream that they had to be assembled during consciousness to be cogent. The...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bridge, Not Too Far For a number of years, the Footloose Forester had wanted to write a chronicle about the missionaries he has known. There were plenty of them, spread out across the globe. Any such chronicle...
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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 On Inspiration Looking back over the years and wondering why certain pronouncements by prominent people that were published for all of us to read were featured in the first place, the introspective Footloose Forester saw a pattern. ...
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This is a hike that I just don't remember much about. As per the description below, it was somewhat unremarkable, other than the story about Zorro in the video attached. The Mt Hillyer Trail hike takes you on a mellow summit loop through a little-hiked area of Angeles National Forest. The...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bucket Lists Oftentimes it takes a trigger for us to reflect on our own views, opinions, and actions. Forming those views and opinions are the raw ingredients leading to intended actions. Mostly we keep views to...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Yesterday the Subject was Tigers We three neighbors sat down yesterday in social distancing, of course, when the subject of tigers came up. It is a favorite topic of the Footloose Forester who had a tiger...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Ghost Towns Part of the allure of being On the road…again!!! in so many rural places was the anticipation of knowing that there were going to be a few ghost towns here and there. Most of...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Bug Zapper Not many people who lived in the valley where the Saó Jorge dos Orgaós research station was located had electric power. In fact, it would be accurate to say that the only people...
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I am running a small business of real estate in my location. I am working as a real estate agent. On daily basis, I try to maintain the customer transaction details, so I use QuickBooks, accounting tool for keeping a record of my all business dealings. Unluckily, I am experiencing ...
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Found in Arizona, the Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon which was sculpted by the Colorado River and housed by the Grand Canyon National Park. Former US President Theodore Roosevelt was a major proponent in the preservation of the area and he had visited the canyon a number of times....
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Bengal Tiger - Dive Buddy The legacy of the Bengal Tiger, that fearless lady who put up her dukes to stare down a surly marine in Senegal and a coterie of young thieves in Madagascar who thought...
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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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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Hard Wiring of the Brain Time and again a casual conversation will steer itself toward something that happened last week, last year, or many years ago. It seems that some people can remember many details about...
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On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Passport to Story Telling Tales of the Bengal Tiger reach back to the time when she was growing up in Cambodia and Viet Nam and continued to be written until a few days before her...
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COVID-19, or coronavirus, turned our lives upside down. A vaccine against this infectious disease has not yet been developed, and those over the age of 65 and over need special care during this pandemic. So how do we take care of our older adults? Read on to receive all your questions...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek The Lumper and the Splitter Meet Again The Footloose Forester has been a life-long splitter: dividing seemingly simple observations into more refined, detailed considerations into the possibilities about the presumed complexity of those observations. A photograph of...
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We hiked Waterman Mountain some years ago and could see Winston Peak from the top, so it was well past time to bag this peak. Winston Ridge was a pleasant surprise! This was such a special hike, I would consider this one of our better peak hikes that we have done!...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Sure, I’m Ignorant and Will Always Be Criticism from afar can cut just as deeply as in-your-face histrionics, complete with sputum and the bulging eyes of the critic. But being called ignorant was never a huge...
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Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek What Do You See? Many chronicles of late have begun with ideas developed in dreams and later polished on paper. A few chronicles like this one begin with a picture and must be probed to reveal...
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