```json
{
    "title": "How close to the edge do you live?",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/03/31/how-close-to-the-edge-do-you-live/",
    "datePublished": "2005-03-31",
    "dateModified": "2005-03-31",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "This morning, on my way to work, I heard on NPR Michelle Kennedy describe how she spent a summer homeless after leaving her husband. [here] The story reminded me just…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# How close to the edge do you live?

This morning, on my way to work, I heard on [NPR](http://www.npr.org/) Michelle Kennedy describe how she spent a summer homeless after leaving her husband. [[here](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4568815)]
The story reminded me just how close so many of us live to that edge. The edge I am talking about is the one that separates you from the street. I live far too close to that edge for my liking, and the exposure is doubled when you factor in that I am a stranger in a strange land.
To think that I could expose my family to the trauma of homelessness weighs on me everyday. And why do I have to worry about it.
Because it's the American Way.