Tom Locke (right) stops for a photo with his son, Benjamin, and his wife, Kathy, in Mexico City in December 2012.

Tom holds Angel, the family's morkie (part Yorkshire terrier, part Maltese) at Emily's Parade in Bailey, Colo., after participating in the 5K race there a few years ago.

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About Tom

Pine, Colo., resident Tom Locke, owner of Tom’s Touch, has spent the last 27 years, 1987-2014, as a writer or editor in the news business for print or online publications. He has worked for, among others, Dow Jones News Service, the Daily Camera in Boulder, the Denver Business Journal, and The Flume in Bailey, Colo., where he was editor from 2006-2014. From 1980-1987 he was general manager of radio station KABN in Big Lake, Alaska.

In 2007 he obtained a master’s degree in English (teaching of writing) from the University of Colorado Denver.

Locke has a strong belief that there’s a need for more recognition of people for what they do and for what they mean to other people, and he thinks such recognition can be as rewarding for the person doing the recognition as for the person being recognized. With that in mind, he established Tom’s Touch. The hope is that he will provide just the right touch in helping you touch the hearts of the ones you love.