(Version 2.0: Updates/corrects bio info thanks to her son, Bob Wilmuth.) Katie Castator surprised us. Again and again. She was Somebody’s Mom, three times over. Yet she had a full-time job. She apparently hadn’t graduated from college, and certainly didn’t have a journalism degree. But there she was in the newsroom, a 40-year-old rookie. She […]

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I remember attempting, in my early 40s, to run a mile in eight minutes. Which doesn’t sound special until you actually try to do it … without a runner’s bodytype or lifestyle, diet or ability to withstand pain. My younger daughter was at soccer practice nearby, and for 10 or 11 weeks that fall I […]

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Dallas eliminated the Anaheim Ducks from the NHL playoffs tonight, which is vaguely newsworthy because the Ducks were the defending champion. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have noticed at all. We barely did, anyway. The NHL is as irrelevant to Southern California as snow tires. We’re just not all that interested. And don’t have to be. It […]

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