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Wild Card/Tuesday — 11.17.09

On Friday, I turn 60 years old. Earlier this year, I was bugged by the pending milestone. I tend to ignore birthdays. Or to take them in stride. The Big 5-0 caught my attention. Mebbe 35 and 40, too. But I needed awhile to process 6-0. Now, there's no clinging to the notion that I'm still young in any way. However, I'm also grateful for the many things I've experienced in life -- and the ones I love and mean much to me. I'm also grateful at this point in my life for a job like being blogmeister of Huckleberries Online. Which still keeps life and work interesting. Thanks for being part of this interesting experiment. With that, I'll play this Wild Card ...



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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