Charlie Jones by Elizabeth Ducie

How to describe a day in my life? Well, I guess I’ve come full circle in some ways. I’m Charlotte Jones, known to everyone as Charlie. I was born in the South West of England and had a happy childhood with my parents and my sister Suzanne – she’s younger than me but,...

Jules Keene by Heather Weidner

Occupation: Owner of the Fern Valley Camping Resort Hi, all. I’m Jules Keene, and I own the Fern Valley Camping Resort. About three years ago, I returned home to the Blue Ridge Mountains to the campground my parents bought in the 1970s. After my divorce from the...

Bridget Kelly by Lori Rader-Day

I’m Bridget Kelly. Bridey, like I’m to be married but I’m not. Bridey is what my mum and my sisters and brother called me, and here I’ve gone and let the little ones here and everyone else call me that again. I don’t have the Blitz spirit. Not the way some do,...

Chloe Abbington by Bailee Abbott

Greetings from Whisper Cove, New York, everyone! My name is Chloe Abbington, and I am an artist. Well, all of my family are artists, so the fact I am isn’t unusual. However, I am the only one who decided to venture out in the world in hopes of making it big in New...

Miriam Quiñones-Smith by Raquel V. Reyes

Hola. I’m Miriam Quiñones, Ph.D. And sometimes I’m Miriam Quiñones-Smith (more on that later.) Another name I go by is Mami. That’s what my four-year-old son calls me. And that’s the reason I’m speaking to you in my quiet voice. He and my husband, Robert, are still...

Vivian Wainwright by Kate Kingsbury

My English mother used to say that anything can be resolved over a cup of hot tea. Since she survived an earthquake, a flood, an aircraft emergency landing in Iceland and the London Blitz of W.W. II, I guess she knew what she was talking about. After all, what could...