Woody Woodburn is a national award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The Best American Sports Writing anthology, The Sporting News, and more than a dozen Chicken Soup For The Soul editions. Woodburn, 53, was been a sports columnist for more than two decades in Southern California with The Ventura County Star and then The Daily Breeze in Torrance; he is now back with The Ventura County Star as a general interest essayist. National recognition for his newspaper work includes First Place for Column Writing by the Associated Press News Executive Council; Column Writing by the Associate...