Here are a few of my writing samples, ranging from human interest stories to business profiles to hard news reporting.
The Fire Gods of Carrier, Oklahoma Oklahoma fireworks company lights up Bricktown, the world By Heide Brandes On Monday, the night sky above Oklahoma City’...
ON A WING AND A PRAYER Eagle Aviary Takes Flight With Tribal Traditions Jennifer Randell of Shawnee didn’t know if Kyla would ever be a true wild bald eagle...
The Father of Modernism Oklahoma City Museum of Art To Showcase Work of Matisse in Exclusive Exhibition By Heide Brandes Henri Emile Benoît Matisse was born...
October 1918 The Americans were losing World War I, the Great War, when 19 men from Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation set foot in southern France to fight for a coun...
South African Safari Beckons Visitors By Heide Brandes I was riding in the spotter seat of the safari jeep, located on the hood of the vehicle, giggling wi...
As Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and ri...
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 ...
Zane Woods is going to change the world. That change may not come today, it may not come tomorrow and it may not even come during Woods’ own lifetime, but h...
On a hot summer Saturday in 2010, Marlon Ladd and his friends faced down a raging mob of zombies on a long, dusty country road in rural Oklahoma. The five h...
They marched nude by the hundreds through forests, by lakes and along mountain trails, with many hoping to go unnoticed. For the most part, national Hike Na...
Kathy Dinh of Oklahoma City is an outdoorsy kind of girl. She likes to get out with her two Labradors and explore the wild places in Oklahoma and beyond. Bu...
Long Road to Liberty Defining the African-American experience in Oklahoma, these pioneers came to settle one of America's last frontiers and create a new sta...
The Ongoing Evolution of Desmond Mason and Why 2015 Will be His Year “I’ve always been the outsider,” Desmond Mason said, his tall, NBA-sized frame squashed...
TO SEE THE WORLD’S BEST COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART, YOU WON’T GO TO CHINA TAIWAN’S NATIONAL PLACE MUSEUM HOUSES MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF CHINESE ART, ARTI...
By Heide Brandes (Reuters) - The small town of Blanchard, Oklahoma, threw a big party this fall, but the guests of honor did not show up. Residents suspect ...
Written by Heide Brandes in the November 2014 Issue On a dark Thursday night that promised rain, MaryDoris Casey was creeping around some dumpsters behind a...
By Heide Brandes (Reuters) - Just over a year ago, tribal elder Gordon Yellowman watched on the TV news as a mile-wide tornado roared toward the homes of hi...
By Heide Brandes EL RENO Okla. (Reuters) - Along America's most fabled road, Route 66, lie the almost forgotten graves of German and Italian prisoners of wa...
AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD AT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK Easy day hikes, children’s programs make Yosemite a popular destination for fall By Heide Brandes The hik...
