Why are you homeless?

Good question. Here's my answer.

I grew up in a farming community in central Minnesota. I later spent 20 years living in the Washington D.C. and northern Virginia area then another 15 or so in a north Chicago suburb. In the fall of 2002 I arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, as a homeless person and I’ve been homeless off and on (but mostly on) ever since.

Currently, I live in a camp in the s…