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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
OKLAHOMA CITY/TULSA, Okla. — Oklahoma parent Matt Reynolds backs a teachers' strike that has shut schools statewide, but each day it drags on is another he h...
Jim Couch, a network engineer in Oklahoma City who also lives in the city, along with his wife, learned early that if they ever wanted to switch their career...
Scotland, mid-19th century. An intruder has been spotted at night on the grounds of Lammermoor Castle, home of Enrico Ashton. Normanno, the captain of the gu...
LYNCHBURG, Tenn.- I’m not drunk, but I should be. Surrounded by millions of gallons of some of the world’s most famous Tennessee whiskey, I am as sober as a...
In ancient times, the Chickasaw Indians were revered as the “Spartans of the Lower Mississippi Valley.” An agrarian tribe, the Chickasaws boasted of a lively...
By Heide Brandes In 2012, more than 686,000 children in America were victims of abuse or maltreatment. Of those, 1,600 died from abuse and neglect, accordin...
When Steve Soroosh owned a used car dealership in 2012, he learned the hard way that even when a vehicle looks perfect, it can be fatally flawed. Buying car...
From 2008 to 2013, America was hooked on the AMC series Breaking Bad, a dark show about a chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer who begins producing a...
Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a three-part series on the growing field of genomics and bioinformatics in the Silicon66 region. Through this...
Right to Farm Bill inspires strong support, rabid opposition on agriculture practices By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY - Talk to supporters of the Right To F...
Though US Won't Appeal Court Rulings on Lesser Prairie Chicken, Conservation Efforts See Success In Habitat, Population Numbers By Heide Brandes Although th...
Elephants in Africa are facing threats daily thanks to poaching, dramatic loss of habitat, disease and more. In the past 25 years, the population of African ...
