When I first arrived in Visalia When I first arrived in Visalia, I was in bad shape. The last thing I felt like doing was helping someone else. But being in the house was so excruciatingly miserable for me I had to get out at all costs. That’s when I went to the Warehouse. That […]
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For those that did not realize it, November 22nd, 2025 was the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas Texas, way back in 1963. Aside from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, and the terrorist attack upon the US on September 11, 2001, there really are
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There’s nothing sadder than when someone who used to be so passionate and exuberant about something extremely important to them loses the fire they once had, and becomes ‘just like’ everybody else. I ought to know. It happened to me. I find it fascinating how if we really want something bad enough,we will often eventually
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I love fishing. I have so many good memories that revolve around fishing trips it would literally make your head spin. My BIG brother Julian, aka ‘Giant’, was the first guy to introduce me to it. My dad, Mr. Albert Delean, introduced fishing to Julian. It seems to be one of those pastimes that have
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‘Loose Cannon’ definition: an unpredictable or uncontrolled person who is likely to cause unintentionaldamage. I loved being raised on a farm. The memories that I have are nothing but a proverbial ‘Diamond Mine’ that would make even the ‘De Beers’ diamond company salivate uncontrollably. One particular memory I possess revolves around a device known as
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I once knew a guy named Chuck. Chuck really wasn’t a friend of mine. As far as I was concerned, Chuck was a real ‘Schmuck’ What is the true meaning of schmuck? Definition of ‘Schmuck Schmuck, or shmuck, is a pejorative term meaning one who is stupid or foolish, or an obnoxious, contemptible or detestable
There’s a saying “God helps those who help themselves”. I believe “God helps those TO help themselves” Many people don’t help the needy because they feel they have caused their own problems and they’re really not worthy of help because of it. Or they harbor bitterness and contempt by feeling “Why should I help them
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It was a dark and stormy November night back in the year of 1979. November 17th, to be exact. It was the night that the mini series ‘Salem’s Lot’ was unleashed upon an unsuspecting North American television viewing audience. It was based on a novel written in 1975 by none other than the one and
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When I was an impetuous young man, I always had to have the best of everything. The best truck, the best motorcycle, the best clothing, the best, the best, the best of everything. If I didn’t have the best, I would sell what I had and then buy the best. It was a never-ending cycle.