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Giving Thanks for Readers

Tom Wobker, aka the Bard of Sherman Avenue, center smiles after being being revealed during Blogfest 2016 on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, at in Coeur d'Alene Wash. (Tyler Tjomsland/SR file photo)
Tom Wobker, aka the Bard of Sherman Avenue, center smiles after being being revealed during Blogfest 2016 on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016, at in Coeur d'Alene Wash. (Tyler Tjomsland/SR file photo)

My thanks to you who pause sometimes
to look upon these little rhymes,
for words just lie there cold and dead
until they are by others read,
and so it is that you’re my pard:
without you here, thered’d be no Bard.

Tom Wobker/The Bard of Sherman Avenue



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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