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Graham recalls growing up in Adelaide in the 1950's.

Pat recalls her early teenage years at Nazareth House Orphange in Plymouth, Devon.

The Life Story Circle topic this week is My Youth and Teenage Years. Ruth recalls her teenage years and the changes she went through.  

Margaret recalls the physical changes of her youth and it affected her life.  

Judith recalls her early youth in Griffith, NSW in 1956 when her Dad was working there for CSIRO, and later in Nambour QLD.  

Joyce talks from the heart about her three special friends and the qualities she admires most in them.  

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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   On The Ground….Again!   When the Footloose Forester ventured far afield in his lifelong adventure to seek out the mysteries of nature, he often found himself without food or shelter.  Not to worry, that was...

( (Hal Melanson, Anne Grant, Harold "Mickey" and Eleanor "Dusty" Melanson)   If I had no problem with time, talent or money... I would gather all the children the world cast aside And shower them with Love and help build up their pride. I would buy a big farm With animals,...

      On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   My Bid Is 8 Spades   The people are real…the events are real…the circumstances are real…the principles are real…the lessons are real…the story is real; but this story, itself is about a dream....

My Dad, Henry Roelof Schenck was a bugler and drummer in the US Marine Corp band, stationed in Washington DC

  On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Sleeping In Graveyards (On A Visit to See George Stidworthy—American Rifleman)   A Footloose Forester who wanted to be… On the road….again! ...by choice, very often elected his own adventures.  So it was that he...

  On The Topic of Death …             It is natural for the living to seriously contemplate death from time to time.  Very few will challenge the fact that in this life, youth is the natural beginning and death is the natural end.  The only real "experts" on death… I suppose…...

  On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   Seek …And Ye Shall Find One of the things that slows us down as writers is our inability to immediately think of the right word to use in a planned zinger campaign.  More constraining...

  SHOW AND TELL …             One day after I returned from work, Michael, my youngest, came up to me bashfully and asked me if I was going to be busy Friday.  I thought about it a moment.              I told him that I was doing something, but asked what was...

On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek   We May Never Meet Again   Older folks tend to look back in time more often than youngsters do.  The older we become, the more time we have to devote to our private thoughts and...

I met Mom working at the Harry Doehla Greeting Card Company [local company started in the 1920s: see article from 1962 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19620630&id=xrUrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1v4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5126,5946058 ] My first impression of her was that she was silly but not a wise guy and fun to be with; easy to please, but noisy; willing to do...

  The Gift of Life… It Ain't What It Used To Be … I work with a great guy, and he is the first one to volunteer to help around the community.  He has his reasons for not supporting some organizations, as he will tell you.  But get him launched on...