Ramona Mayon sits inside her 27-foot Gulfstream RV at the Bayview Vehicle Triage Center in San Francisco. Now 62 and battling Stage 4 breast cancer, the self-described nomad is making peace with herself while still fighting for the rights of the unhoused. (Courtesy Ramona Mayon)

One night in March while an extreme weather event exploded over San Francisco — a “bomb cyclone” as the climatologists called it — Ramona Mayon was texting with a journalist.

The journalist was in a warm and comfortable home office. Mayon was not.

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Joe Dworetzky is a second career journalist. He practiced law in Philadelphia for more than 35 years, representing private and governmental clients in commercial litigation and insolvency proceedings. Joe served as City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia under Mayor Ed Rendell and from 2009 to 2013 was one of five members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission with responsibility for managing the city’s 250 public schools. He moved to San Francisco in 2011 and began writing fiction and pursuing a lifelong interest in editorial cartooning. Joe earned a Master’s in Journalism from Stanford University in 2020. He covers Legal Affairs and writes long form Investigative stories. His occasional cartooning can be seen in Bay Area Sketchbook. Joe encourages readers to email him story ideas and leads at joe.dworetzky@baycitynews.com.