Day In Life ~ Alison Crane by Elizabeth Wilkerson

I’ve only been in Japan for a few months, so I haven’t found my footing yet. You see, when my boyfriend, Charles, got relocated to the Tokyo branch of his investment bank, I quit my environmental law practice and followed along. It wasn’t a stupid idea, not really....

Day In Life ~ Sadie Walela by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe

“Osiyo, tohitsu?” That’s Cherokee for “hello, how are you?” My name is Sadie Walela and I am Cherokee. Walela means hummingbird which is quite appropriate since I seem to always be buzzing around, forward and backward, and even hovering in place – whatever it takes to...

Day In Life ~ Jocelyn Eleanor Müller by Victoria Hamilton

Hi. I’m Jocie Müller and I’m almost ten. Well, not really. I’m nine, but I want to be ten. My daddy is Jakob Müller and he’s a Christmas tree farmer and owns a junk store. We got married last year to Jaymie Leighton. I wasn’t sure what to call her at first, but she...

Day In Life ~ Faith McClellan by LynDee Walker

Occupation: Texas Ranger One hundred and nineteen. That’s how many murder cases I’ve cleared. A perfect record—maybe the only currently unbroken streak in the Texas Department of Public Safety. It’s what landed me this job—Texas Ranger, the best of the best Lone Star...

Day In Life ~ Marabella Vinegar by Sandra Gardner

My name is Marabella Vinegar. No, I’m not making it up. It’s not an alias, or a pseudonym. My family name was courtesy of the kind folks at Ellis Island. We were respectable Vinnaucyurs back in south-middle Poland. My strange first name came from my...