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What Being Homeless Means

After reading over John Scalzi’s list of what it means to be poor, I spent some time thinking what it means to be homeless.
Here are just a few off the top of my head. I could do this all day, and the longer I do it, the angrier I get at a society as rich [...]

Posted 17 October 2008 † Hugh Hollowell § Homeless § Popular ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged:

What It Means To Be Poor

For the record, being poor sucks.
No one has ever captured it as well for me as John Scalzi, a writer of some note.  Scalzi wrote this in the immediate aftermath of Huricane Katrina, when there was a lot of folks dissing the poor for not leaving New Orleans in advance of the storm.
Being Poor
Being poor is [...]

Posted 17 October 2008 † Hugh Hollowell § Justice ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,