Archive for November 10, 2007

Blogmaster takes baby steps with new, improved ACL

My knee is beautiful, the nurse said. Walking on crutches extensively for the first time since Tuesday’s ACL surgery, I made my way yesterday to Kaiser Zion hospital — where nearly 19 years earlier I saw my son born.Yesterday, when nurse Eileen took off my old bandages, I had my first glimpse of my reborn […]

November 10, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

How not to start a profile of a masters track athlete

Dan Goldman writes for a Boston-area paper called the Enterprise. In September, he wrote about W70 thrower Mary Riley. In about 30 words, he managed to hit every masters cliche in the book. He began: “Mary Riley may be a grandmother of 10 and a great-grandmother of seven, but she is not spending her senior […]

November 10, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  2 Comments

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