LOIS HENRY: And what were you doing when you were 14?

When I was 14 years old, my biggest concerns were pimples and whether I could con my mother into buying me a pair of the latest Chemin de Fer jeans. (It was the '80s, don't judge.)

Homeless kids ranked as low as you could get on my priority list. In fact, I don't think I even knew there was such a thing as homeless kids. If I did, I probably would have felt bad, but figured the problem was wa