Los Angeles Times
Sportwriter
Mike Penner's
essay on becoming
Christine Daniels is one of the most heavily viewed stories on latimes.com in the last year, with about half a million page views. "Writing that piece, which I didn't initially want to write, ended up becoming one of the best things I have ever done," Daniels tells
James Rainey. "And a day I dreaded all my life has ended up being one of the best days I've ever had." Daniels received only two negative responses out of 538 e-mails.