Lyfting Me Up

I thought long and hard about whether or not to write this today.  On March 17th 1979, my brother Don, aged 20 and a friend who was 16, were killed in a car wreck in Pueblo.  Don was legally drunk and that is a fact that certainly contributed to this tragedy.  An hour ago I… Continue reading

About two weeks ago on the Friday before I headed out with 23 other folk to Israel, I decided to do a bit of Lyfting.  I pulled up in a neighborhood just west of Denver University.  Out on the front porch was what seemed to be an obvious three generation goodbye.  The woman in her… Continue reading

Hello out there, Red the Lyft car is the garage and I am writing you from Tiberius, Israel.  I will be her another week and the I am back to Colorado. I have experienced once again how drawn I am to this country and all of its stories.  I look forward to processing my Lyft… Continue reading

I had just finished a sad 15 minute ride with a very broken young woman.  The details are ours; sometimes I assure my riders, “What is shared in Red 🚗, will stay in Red 🚗”.  My head was spinning and my heart  ❤️ hurt.  “Ping”… time to get focused for the next ride. He came… Continue reading

I’m someone who has always loved to travel.  I only realized somewhere in the middle of adulthood that I was a somewhat privileged kid.   I was very fortunate in that, by Pueblo standards I had seen a lot of the world by the time I was 18. My folks took us on many trips… Continue reading

I am back to writing about about a Lyft ride I took to DIA last Sunday morning. It is early Saturday morning, and I am on our lanai in Kauai. I confess to telling my Lyft riders “You are supporting my travel addiction”. It usually makes them smile. As I write I am listening to… Continue reading

About 20 months ago Lyft sent out a notice of a new service called Lyft-Line.   They had test marketed the concept in San Francisco and declared it a big success. The idea is that you take complete strangers in the same general direction.  Somehow through the magic of algorithms, your Driver app is able… Continue reading

This past Wednesday I decided to “do a little driving in the burbs”.  I sat in my driveway, turned on the app.  It didn’t take long.  Mandy at “Streamers Coffee” .5 miles away.   I thought 💭 “What, a coffee shop this close to me”?  Sure enough, right there on 86th, sits a dapper commercial… Continue reading

Lyft sent my “stats update” yesterday and it showed that I had given 3997 rides in 26 months.  I decided that before I could watch football today I had to get three rides.   This was complicated by the reality that I wanted to drive to Greeley for our monthly ‘Men’s Breakfast’ at First Christian. … Continue reading

This was my third New Year’s Eve as a Lyft driver.  Years one and two were what I would call ‘exciting and profitable’.  I had experienced none of the nightmare scenarios that you might expect; they were truly fun. It was like going to a bunch of parties without any of the hassle.  This year… Continue reading