Good News! 12 Happy/Inspiring Stories From 2013

"Why don't you print some good news for a change?" 

It's a question you hear a lot in this business. And as I look over our most read stories from 2013, I see some common denominators: untimely death, lives upended, not enough money.

Here are some stories of a different stripe: people coming together, creating rather than destroying, or at least trying to find some light in the dark.