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Some Essentials For Story Tellers

Dick Pellek

On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek On Writing a Paper, or a Report, or a Book, or a Post-It-Note People who have writing chores as part of their job descriptions have to follow certain guidelines when it comes to attaining...

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Encourage me to write about my grandfather!!!!

Paul Coover

I am going to write a biography of my grandfather. But first I must learn how to write such a story. So I look to my favorite author, David McCullough, for guidance. Why not learn from the best. He has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams. ...

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Looking for Suzie

Dick Pellek

On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Looking for Suzie When we lived in Honolulu, Thu and the Footloose Forester chose to seek out a church where we would be comfortable. The very old, traditional, but decidedly frumpy cathedral in Waikiki had...

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What I know of my Grandparent's faith

JUSTIN ERIK CORMIER

My grandparents on my Father's side...George and Lillian Cormier. My Grandparents on my Mother's side...Wallace (Wally) and Helen Brackin. Oh, and that's my brother on the left and me on the right at our home in Conway N.H. Harvey Blake Rental. On my Mother's side of the family my...

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Up the Zugspitze

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Telling Stories With Pictures A book with pictures always adds something positive to the storyline. Short stories usually don’t have pictures but that does not mean that pictures or sketches don’t suit the short-story genre. With...

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Obelisk in Shadow

Dick Pellek

On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Obelisk in Shadow Some people look at a rock outcrop and just see rocks. Others look and don’t see anything, and they say so. Yet others look and see the manifestations of natural history; they...

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Picking Your Own Tropical Fruit

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek H is for Hawaii When it was over, the Footloose Forester blurted out in a public forum that the past six years were the shortest years in his life. They were probably the happiest years, as...

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Dona Thu Stares Down A Marine

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afgha nistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Gorée Island, Senegal During a 2-month extension of the Environmental Impact Statement phase of the Senegal River Basin Project, wife Thu joined with Footloose Forester and packed her things for a new adventure. We were...

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The Wisconsin Glacier Leaves Us Reminders

Dick Pellek

On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Living on the Terminal Moraine After a short one-page article about terminal moraine boulders in Netcong, New Jersey was published in the geology section of About.com in April 2011, it now becomes apparent that...

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Beyond Sound Bites

Ersula Odom

On January 1 2011 I decided to read technical information every day in pursuit of my dreams. Alarmed, I then realized that it is just wrong to make that kind of commitment without having completely read the Bible at least once. So I'm doing both. I'm reading The One Year Bible,...

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Oh, for the faith of a child!

Ruth L.Meacham Memorial

My second son, Lloyd was diagnosed with rheumatic fever and the doctor recommended that we move to a warmer, dryer climate for the winter. In November 1951, our family of four children (Goldie, Lloyd, Steve, and Janice) moved to Mesa, Arizona. One day, Lloyd came home from kidergarten crying his eyes...

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Snowless (almost) Kilimanjaro

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek T is for Tanzania Many people know that Mount Kilimanjaro is located in East Africa and that there is snow at its summit. At 19,341 feet above sea level, the top of Kilimanjaro is a sacred...

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But I Only Wanted a Harley. . .

Millard Don Carriker

In the first few years after “The War” every American wanted either something they had been denied during “The War” or something they’d never had. We teen agers were no exception. There were, of course, some fads that came and went, such as boys insisting on a pair of boots –...

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Do you make new year resolutions? If not why? If so, what are your 2012 resolutions?

Diane Mason Gray

I have truly never made a New Year's resolution. Probably I gave some thought to one or two, but I knew I'd never keep them, so it was just dismissed from my mind! Consequently, there isn't much to write about this topic! Most likely I have reflected over the past year,...

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Joe Fodor bails out, then survives Stalag-17

Dick Pellek

On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose F orester By Dick Pellek Originally published on 2 January 2012 A Story of War Joe Fodor is going on 90 now, but you would never...

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