This Skid Road podcast episode includes excerpts from my three books on health and homelessness. The first excerpt is from the opening of my first book, Catching Homelessness: A Nurse’s Story of Falling Through the Safety Net (2016). It has to do with my realization of my hypocrisy in terms of homelessness, of ‘coming out’ with my story of homelessness and severe depression as a young adult. The second excerpt is from a chapter titled “Walk in My Shoes” from my second book, Soul Stories: Voices From the Margins (2018). I write about empathy and homelessness and the importance of providing basic foot care to people experiencing homelessness provided by nursing and medical students. The third and final excerpt is from the opening chapter, “Brother’s Keeper,” from my book Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City (2021). It tells the story of Seattle’s first official homeless person, the sailor Edward Moore.