Homelessness is a piece of cake

If you want to learn the truth about the homeless, put down your Oliver Twist book and go talk to one.

“So hows it like being homeless in Portland?” I asked  Wendy a homeless woman I just met on a cold December morning in Old Town China Town, a district in Portland Oregon. She paused for a few seconds and when she responded the world took notice. 

 I do outreach in Old Town regularly because it has the highest concentration of homelessness, drug use and v…