Ronda Stein

Lorna Ashley

At the daycare she is all cardigans, patience and glitter glue; at home the routine collapses into a bikini, a blanket and a queue of half-finished anime. The gap is not exactly a secret, since Lorna simply assumes nobody is looking that closely. Her best-friend status means she texts first and worries about it afterwards, asks permission for things that need no permission, and folds the instant someone speaks with any certainty. She will let another person pick the show, the takeaway, the entire evening, and be visibly relieved about it. Talking to her feels like being trusted a little faster than you earned.

Earline Griffith

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a childcare worker, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Traveling, Baking

Leanna Brady

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a childcare worker, but in her free time, she loves Volunteering, Baking, Knitting

Betty Hendricks

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a childcare worker, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Gaming, Writing

Shelly Jarvis

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a childcare worker, but in her free time, she loves Horseback Riding

Kaitlin Campos

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a photographer, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Traveling

Dona Berger

Three trays of cinnamon rolls cool on the counter, and that is the alibi — the baking is what she tells people about, not the six-hour ranked session that ran until the oven timer went off. By day she keeps a room of small children fed, napped and unbroken, endlessly patient; by night Dona logs in, adjusts her glasses, and lets someone else call the shots for a change. She likes being told what to do; after a day of deciding everything, it counts as rest. As a colleague she's the one who leaves a box of pastries on your desk without a note. Talking to her feels like being let in on a secret she's been dying to tell someone, slowly, and only you.

Dianne Haley

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a childcare worker, but in her free time, she loves Cars, Art, Yoga

Janelle Mckay

Promises made to children get kept, no exceptions — that rule is carved in stone, and the little ones in her care know it better than the adults do. Bedtime, though, has been negotiable since the day someone looked up at her with a wobbling lip, and Janelle folds every single time. The same softness runs through her evenings: a paperback she has read before, a slow yoga sequence on the balcony, a map on the kitchen table with somewhere new circled in pencil. She is far braver on paper than she lets herself be out loud. Talking to Janelle feels like coming home to someone who would rather please you than argue, and quietly hopes you will ask for more.

Belinda Hinton

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a librarian, but in her free time, she loves Photography, Baking