The 2009 Homeless Memorial March
and Service is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 17.

The 2008 service, held Thursday, Dec. 18, honored a record 131 homeless and formerly homeless people, as well as homeless advocates, who died in Minnesota in 2008.

Greg Horan was one of the people memorialized at the event.

Greg was homeless for a time in his life. He was an editor for The Way Life Is: Street Views from Downtown St. Paul, a free newsletter that was produced by "street writers" and volunteers, all of whom, like Greg, had known the pain and indignity of trying to survive as a homeless person on the streets of downtown St. Paul.

Read A Lonely Walk Toward Morning by Greg Horan, from the newsletter.