Patty Smith

Patty Smith is a vendor and artist for Street Sense. She began selling Street Sense in November of 2003.

Articles by Patty

• Two poems

• Happy Christmas from vendor number 4

• Two Nice Things

• Juneteenth Holiday

• My name is Strong

• My Mom

• Patty's Sketchbook: Me and My Community

• Sis

• Beloved

• My life in review

• Promise

• Chino's mark: Fond memories from friends

• Tributes to Donald Brooks

• Mistaken for love

• Small Town

• Mistaken for Love

• Love Is

• Home for the Holidays

• Broken Man

• My mom

• Rest in peace Elizabeth Kitsos-Kang

• Walk alone

• Raggedy Ann

• Everything must change

• Drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes

• God's Gift

• Carrying on and playing through

• Three women I respect

• My Favorite Foods

• Summer 2017 at Street Sense

• Poverty is Like Surviving a War

• Street Sense Vendors Remember Michael

• Fond Memories

• Sweet Lover

• Difficult Decision

• Finally Saying "No!" to Alcohol

• How do you survive the cold? Home.

• 2016 Was A Very Good Year

• In Memory of My Father

• Breakfast Bunch

• Where Are They Going? (+♫)

• A Memorable Summer

• A Play at Wilson High School

• Surprise

• 🎧 Sounds From the Street: Patty Smith Sings the Blues

• Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?

• LAST WORD: Advocate with Us

• Reflections on "Home Sweet Home"

• Christmas All Over Again!

• My Street Sense Story

• Thinking of Horses

• Housed and Unhoused

• New Year, New Beginnings!

• Something With a Future

• A Moment That Changed Me

• Autumn For Us

• Happy Halloween

• From There to Here; My Progression on Homelessness

• My Favorite Customer

• A Critique: "The Story of an Hour"

• The Woman in the Window

• I Just Moved to My New Home!

• Kindness of Strangers

• Welcome to the Army

• Hope on a Dream: Congratulations Pastor Charles

• Is it Over a Cigarette?

• My Favorite Foods

• My Friend Nathaniel

• Happy Mother's Day 2015!

• My Typical Day

• Baby Business: Growing Up

• Tales from the Cold

• What Makes Watha T. Daniel Interim Library So Good

• Writer's Group (05.26.2010)

• Writer's Group (05.12.2010)

• Writer's Group (03.03.2010)

• Writer’s Group (02.17.2010)

• Walk In My Shoes

• Chip and Little Cheep: No One is too Small to be Great

• The Good Old Days on Memorial Day

• Catherine’s Remedy

• Knock Knock Jokes

• Movie Review: Roger Rabbit and the Dip

• Book Review: “Who Does She Think She Is?”

• Ode to Eartha Kitt

• Cooking with Street Sense

• Book Review: “Wedding Day Disaster”

• Ask the Cards a Question

• Figure Skating Championship 

• Here’s to Archie’s 65th 

• Writer’s Group (01.07.2009)