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Birthday Wild Card — 11.20.14

I'm officially a Seasoned Citizen now. I reached age 65 at 1:30 this morning. I looked at my face in the mirror after shaving this morning. There's certainly more wrinkles there than there were 10 years ago. But I earned them, especially the laugh lines around the mouth and eyes. I enjoy life. I'm blessed in so many ways -- in terms of family, friends, and this cyber community. Also, I'm blessed to love and be loved by a wonderful God who changed my life dramatically at the onset of my 44-year newspaper career. And it ain't over. As I said in my very first post at Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004: "Fasten your seatbelts, you're in for a wild ride." Now for today's 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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