It has taken me these three weeks to process what happened that night. I have put off writing about it until I had some perspective. I was wrapping up a mid-week evening of driving and headed back to my perch at the north end of Washington Park. If you would have asked me 30 years… Continue reading

“After Midnight we gonna let it all hang out”–Eric Clapton Until I started driving for Lyft in November of 2015, I had maybe heard the clock strike 12am one New Year’s Eve, five years ago. That is no longer the case. Probably three or four times a month I will find myself driving on a… Continue reading

When you spend 25-50 hours in a week in your car, your radio becomes your constant companion.  I don’t have a ‘playlist’ but I do have Sirius XM.  I can move seamlessly from sports talk, to MSNBC, to classical, jazz and old time ‘rock ‘n roll’.  What’s on the radio– I guess I should call… Continue reading

She was my first ride on Saturday morning.  People ask me if I have any idea where I am taking people when I am ‘dinged’, the answer is: Nope.   When I arrive to pick up a passenger the app tells me where we are going,   This is to keep drivers from ‘cherry picking’. … Continue reading

I hadn’t been driving for Lyft more than a couple of months when my son Mateo said to me, “You approach this like you are playing your favorite video game.”  Well, it is a fact that I am the ONLY person I know who ‘Saved the Princess’ on GAMEBOY Tetris in 1995.   I was… Continue reading

I was doing one last ride on this past gorgeous Sunday afternoon.  I picked her up near Denver University.  Her destination was the Brown Palace.  I immediately did my “Oh my, another privileged non-Native invader off to spend her Daddy’s money.”  I don’t know about you, but I am in an ongoing conversation with my… Continue reading

I picked him up in the parking lot of a miniature urban strip mall. One that has the oldest Starbucks in Denver and a bakery named “La Sensual”.  This is the bakery that I wondered into within days of moving here 20 years ago, from the San Luis Valley.  Try to imagine someone who had… Continue reading

I picked Dave up at Historians Bar on South Broadway.  We made a left turn which put us smack to the south side of the church I served for nearly 18 years.  He said, “That is my favorite church building in Denver”. “Well,” I joyfully said, “I was the Senior Minister there until 2015.”  “You… Continue reading

It was a Spring afternoon and I picked her up at a convenience store in the heart of downtown.  She got in the front seat and said “I need to go west and then all the way back east. I hope that is okay?”   I said “You’re the boss.”   We headed up Speer… Continue reading

People can change.  I just returned from a gathering of preacher types at my seminary, Phillips Theological, which is now in Tulsa.  I have been going to something called Phillips in Oklahoma since 1967, that would be 50 years, YIKES!!!  Every year in January they host something called “Remind and Renew”, which is both a… Continue reading