Here are a few of my writing samples, ranging from human interest stories to business profiles to hard news reporting.
Wayne Wu speeds the aluminum fishing boat toward a salmon honey hole in southeast Alaska. In the back, I’m bundled up with three other women against the gray...
The vast plain shines almost painfully bright in the Oklahoma summer sun. Instead of waving wheat or rows of corn, the land is the shocking white of salt. In...
“THE KITTENS OF THE SPIDER WORLD” Inside the Growing Subculture of Insect Pet Owners By Heide Brandes Kathy Hendricks pointed at the shelves of plastic litt...
When you have a restaurant with a name like The Roadkill Cafe, you might expect some people to take you seriously. Debbie Mejia and her husband Bruce watche...
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When you have a restaurant with a name like The Roadkill Cafe, you might expect some people to take you seriously. Debbie Mejia and her husband Bruce watche...
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The Legend of the White Dog By Heide Brandes Nelson King may never have opened his wildly popular restaurant White Dog Hill in Clinton, Oklahoma, if he had...
The tide is out and the afternoon sun blazes briefly as I stroll the glassy smooth sands of Cox Bay Beach in Tofino, British Columbia. It’s unseasonably warm...
By Heide Brandes We were deep and high in the towering mountains outside of Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, creeping along a dirt path in the inky c...
BY HEIDE BRANDES | DEC 8 2019 In summer 2019, visitors to Oklahoma’s Chickasaw National Recreation Area’s Lake of the Arbuckles met a new line of defense in ...
When Dylan Jennings, a member of the Bad River Band of the Ojibwe, was a child, he and his family loaded on canoes to prowl the waters of northern Wisconsin,...
HOW WOMEN ARE SINKING STEREOTYPES IN MALE-DOMINATED SPORT OF FISHING By Heide Brandes The sun was just starting to glow on the horizon along Fort Myers, Flo...
Amy Viktoria was lonely. A Canmore, Alberta resident, Amy was new to the area, and she didn’t have anyone to hike with except for her dog, Metsa. Her husban...
By Heide Brandes The temperature at what seems like the top of the world is brutally cold enough to steal your breath away, but the view spread before me in...
Like most parents, Morgan Stidger worried about what her child watched or played on her phone and computer. But then she learned about a program at the Oklah...
Don’t splash in the puddles that form atop Enchanted Rock: Tiny fairies are dancing there. Shallow pools that form after rains on the massive granite dome n...
Jo Licata wasn’t sure what to do with the 6-foot-tall stuffed dinosaur in her office. The massive Barney doll had been left at the Hilton San Francisco Union...
By Heide Brandes The boats came at dawn along the shores of the town of Dangriga on the coast of Belize. Onboard, vibrantly dressed men, women and children...
OKLAHOMA CITY – Tamara Harvell of Tulsa was working a full-time writing center position and a part-time lab adjunct position at a Tulsa college when she was ...
Papa No Smile frowned fiercely as he laid out platters of grilled beef and chicken alongside salad and wine on the stone picnic table. An old man with a repu...
All around me, the land is awash in fiery red. Set against the powder blue sky of the Texas Hill Country, the fields and fields and fields of red poppies lo...
