A Day In My Life ~ Joey Jessop by Marjorie McCown

Most mornings I’m up by 5:00 because I like starting the day with a walk along the shoreline before I have to get on the road to work. My name’s Joey Jessop, and I live in “America’s Most Glamorous Trailer Park” (so says the NY Times...

A Day In My Life ~ Tim Badger by Jeri Westerson

Me name’s Tim Badger and I used to be one of them Baker Street Irregulars working for one Mister Sherlock Holmes. But being a man now, I opened me own detective agency with me friend, Ben Watson (no relation), though Mister Holmes finds it amusing that I got me own...

A Day In My Life ~ Yale Yee by Jennifer J. Chow

Thanksgiving dinner must be my favorite meal of the year. I get to eat turkey (sometimes with bread as stuffing; other times, with sticky rice inside) and indulge in pumpkin pie. Plus, Ba actually rests from running his busy dim sum restaurant, and we get to share a...

A Day In My Life ~ Heather Quinn by Lindsay Cameron

You wanted to see a day the life of Heather Quinn, but today really isn’t a good day for it. I was scheduled to be volunteering at the school library this morning, but instead I’m sitting here in the back of a nondescript café thirty blocks from my Upper East Side...

A Day In My Life ~ Zoe Chambers-Adams by Annette Dashofy

I’m Monongahela County Coroner Zoe Chambers-Adams, and I’ve been watching the weather forecast for days. I was in my late teens when Hurricane Ivan—or Tropical Storm Ivan by the time it reached us—created flooding like I’d never seen before here in southwestern...