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In 1965 while sitting in geometry class an announcement went out over the PA. I was a Sophomore at Pueblo East high school— “If you are interested in hosting next year’s foreign exchange student, as a host family, please pick up an application in the guidance counselor‘s office”. At that time in Pueblo the American […]

If you drive for Lyft in the summertime in Denver you’re going to get to experience every kind of concert, concert goer, and slices of Americana, as riders range from Grateful Dead followers, to the Denver symphony. I  think my favorite concert groupies are the yearly invasion for the band Phish. The Phish bring in […]

As we come up on our 4th of July celebration 🎉 🎊 # # # I want to share a slice of Americana from the “Queen City of the Plains” (our first nick-name, before the Mile High City.) Ride 1: I took my first passenger at 10am this past Friday morning. The request came from […]

Proudly Inspected by #7 I got something more powerful than a ‘fortune cookie’ prophecy… I think I heard from God. After five months living in our new place out in Arvada just a few miles south of Wyoming (hyperbole), a brand new King Soopers giant store opened. At this ‘Super’ Sooper store you can buy […]

My friend Jim said to me years ago “Mark, good ideas are a dime a dozen. The difference between a good idea and it’s fruition and practice, involves a huge amount of work, blood, sweat and tears, plenty of failures and a willingness to not give up”. I have had plenty of great ideas since […]

The story I am about to share is about one of the most courageous persons I have ever encountered. I first met Crystal a couple of months ago. She lives in the center of old Denver just west of City Park. I picked her up with her kids, to take them to school. I thought […]

I have a “Bucket List”.   I did not call it that until the movie by that name put the phrase in our common lexicon.  Just in case you never saw the movie with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, it’s about two old guys who set out to accomplish life goals before they “kick the […]

Anyone who knows me well knows that one of my mottos is: ‘If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing’. I certainly have ended up in more than one12- step group as a result of this gift of character/character defect/ anomaly of DNA. Friday is my drive-for-Lyft day. My son Mateo, describes my approach to Lyft […]

Around four in the afternoon on Friday I was parked in my driveway and had just turned my app back on. I got a call to pick up a young woman about a mile from my house. Remember, most live riders have a profile picture along with their name. I pulled up in front of […]

We took a little mini-vacation to Las Vegas early this week.  I find that about about three days in Vegas about every three years is plenty.  The people watching, a show or two, a donation to the Willie Wonka slot machine and some pool time and I am good.  We find that using Lyft is […]