Awards
Recognition my work has received includes:
- Pulitzer Prize nomination for series on son’s service in Iraq – Christian Science Monitor
- Best Series — Association of Op-Ed Editors
- San Diego Book Awards, Best Memoir
- National Headliners Award nomination
- National Public Radio’s “On Point” – Year’s Best Radio Diaries (three successive years)
- Darrell Sifford Memorial Prize/Missouri School of Journalism – Finalist
- Parenting Publications of America – Best Humor Column (seven years)
- Independent Publisher Book Awards – Finalist – Humor, The Snake in the Spin Cycle
- San Diego Press Club – Best Column Writing
- San Diego Press Club – Best Humor Writing
- Benjamin Franklin Award – Mission Memoirs