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5280 Magazine: What Happened to Abbey’s Mom: Fighting breast cancer while pregnant Best Health Feature, 2012 Top of the Rockies Awards, 2012 Livingston Award finalist  She was 25 years old [...]

March 3, 2010 Glamour Magazine: Why are So Many Young Women Getting Bullied Online? Online bullies almost destroyed Meghan Pearce’s self-esteem. One slow afternoon at her Arizona public [...]

January, 2010 Alternative Dallas Court Offers Ex-Prostitutes a New Beginning Won a PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, for work that “enlightens, empowers change.” [...]

March 12, 2009 Gimme Shelter: U.S. military deserters flock to Canada to avoid war in Iraq Finalist for the 2010 PEN Literary Award  Just 5 feet tall, with a baby strapped to her chest and a [...]

April, 2008 Family court judge sheds light on unfair child support practices in Texas Winner, Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism The problem began the night his wife didn’t come home. He had [...]

November, 2008 Pole Dancing: Good for the body, but what about a woman’s soul? The moment I walk into the Girls Room, I feel out of place. The studio’s wide, mirrored space is punctuated by [...]

May, 2008 Terrain of Grief: Widows of slain soldiers bond together to bind their wounds Best Feature from the Houston Press Club, finalist for Columbia University’s Dart Awards for [...]

September, 2009 Can an over-analytical control freak find inner peace— or at least get up in the morning—with help from an Indian life coach? I‘m on my way to see a Delhi-born meditation guru who [...]

July, 2007 Dallas Observer Elias dangles the dead iguana by the tail. His friends close in around him, watching hungrily. With a knife he slices through scaly green skin and peels it back to [...]

August, 2008 Fighting Fire with Fire: Integrating controversial medications into alcohol abuse recovery  His nightly transformation began with a twinge. Then, gnawing and relentless, it consumed [...]