Walt Pickut
Walt Pickut’s writing career began with publishing medical research in1971 while working at the Jersey City Medical Center and the NYU Hospital and School of Medicine. Walt holds board registries in respiratory care and sleep technology as well as bachelor's degrees in biology and communication, and a master's degrees in physiology from Fairleigh-Dickinson University in New Jersey, with additional graduate work in mass communication completed at SUNY Amherst.
He currently teaches Presentational Speaking in the Houghton College PACE program at JCC and holds memberships in the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He lives in Jamestown with his wife Nancy, an MSW social worker, and has three children: Dr. Cait Lamberton in Pittsburgh, Bill Pickut, a marketing executive in Chicago, and Rev. Matt Pickut in Plymouth, IN.
Otto the auto?
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Walter W. Pickut
Ever since the old gray mare and the horse-drawn buckboard went out of style, cars have taken over the roads.
Old-timers and...
Back again… or never left?
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Every springtime I marvel at the flowers parting the soil from far beneath, like green swords slicing their way up out...
Finding Home Again: Welcome and Safety for Rescued Refugees
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Whether by war, natural disaster, or famine, people throughout history have too often been forced to flee death and disaster by...
A long walk…
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I used to take long walks, sometimes for miles and miles. I called it “taking a ride on my legs,” letting...
Positive Perseverance at Pablo’s Auto
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They say the longest journey begins with a single step--even if it’s across a tropical sea and nearly 2,000 miles as the...
We all do it…
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As a matter of fact, it’s pretty hard to imagine not doing it. And if you stopped doing it, you wouldn’t...
Hooktown Holidays – Grass Roots Philanthropy Grows in Warren
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“All I wanted to do,” long-time Warren resident, Terry Pearson, told the Gazette last week, “was to start a fire.” That...
Oak trees…
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s an old saying that just about everybody knows, but...
One hand tied behind my back?
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It’s an old saying. You’ve probably heard it a thousand times and so have I. Yet it has two almost opposite...
A Better Sharing*
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Remember that day when you were a kid and Mom, or Dad, or old Aunt Sadie, caught you squabbling over some...
