Annie Locke Knows How to Fight to Survive

Written by Marie Bradby
Photo by Melissa Donald

"You have to keep going," says fitness guru and co-owner of a Pure Barre studio, Annie Locke. She survived a tumultuous childhood with a severely alcoholic mother, and a car accident as a teen that required thousands of stitches in her head. "You make your life what it is."

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By Torie Temple / Photos by Melissa Donald

Holly Houston has some great survival tips!

Written by Marie Bradby 

Photography by Melissa Donald

Holly Houston — lawyer, nonprofit volunteer, activist for women’s and girls’ issues, organizer, writer, dinner party hostess, and more — is power walking through her Highlands neighborhood while she talks to me on the phone.

“Of course,” Holly says, laughing about her relentless multitasking as the sound of afternoon rush-hour traffic zooms past her. I got a crash course on this wonder woman when she sent me a brief but dense email that humorously summed up what she’s been up to for the past 20 years — which is way more than would fit into this article.

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