Here are a few of my writing samples, ranging from human interest stories to business profiles to hard news reporting.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Special publication for the grand opening of the OCU School of Law new facility. Majority of copy written by Heide Brandes
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...
Written by Heide Brandes in the March 2014 Issue U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Rusty Dunagan was seven weeks into his second tour of combat when a bomb took almo...
Written by Heide Brandes in the February 2014 Issue The Vintage Doll, Mimi LaRue, is adorable in a 1950s-style pink and white dress, white stellar heels and...
(Reuters) - A 33-year-old Oklahoma man has been charged with killing his stepfather by giving him an "atomic wedgie," that caused the victim to suffocate on ...
Five-year-old Luke Mays of Guthrie sways with a natural rhythm as the giant white-and-gray horse beneath him trots through the soft reddish dirt in the barn ...
The girls look like little pixie fairies–just so tiny and young and full of the energy that butterflies and hummingbirds seem to have. It’s hard to visualize...
Getting Fresh With Chef Jonathan Stranger By Heide Brandes Jonathan Stranger talks about food the way most people talk about lost, secret treasure — his fi...
Hundreds of people gathered in stormy weather on Thursday to mourn a 9-year-old girl who loved to sing, dance and paint, as funerals began for 24 victims of ...