Artwork by Michael Williams @kcmidtownartist When you saw the photo, did your brain make up a story? My brain used to do that, and still does occasionally about many things not only the homeless. One of the most important lessons I have learned is how dangerous it can be to my relationships to make up stories in my mind about anything...what someone is thinking, feeling...and why someone is in the situation they are in or how easy it would be to get out of it. I have come to

After selling my home more than two years ago and getting rid of all but a few physical possessions in order to go away and write my memoir, I returned to Kansas City last year and told my daughter I wasn’t going to buy any Christmas decor for my little studio apartment. My little lover of all things Christmas, who is now 29 years old, wasn’t going to let me get away with making it easy on myself. It sounded blasphemous to her not to have at least some holiday decor, so she b