Wild Card/Tuesday — 2.21.12

I begin today sheepishly, still trying to digest fact that I’m now in my 9th year of blogging for The Spokesman-Review — not my 10th. Somewhere along the line I began thinking that I’d started this blog on Feb. 16, 2003, instead of Feb. 16, 2004. Then, I’ve never had a good memory. I wonder what else I have wrong about important dates in my personal history. I need to check with my wife to make sure that we were married in June 1975. I’m pretty sure that I started my newspaper career in June 1970. I’m fairly certain that I’ve lived & worked in Coeur d’Alene since September 1984. Beyond that, everything’s fuzzy. I’ll post this Wild Card and continue to sort things out …