Lyfting Me Up

So it’s Friday late morning and I am taking a Lyft break.  I haven’t driven for well over a week and I have decided to take my “day off” to ‘fire up my Lyft Ap’.  My decision to skip golf was based on the three-day weather forecast (which called for wind and cold) was rewarded… Continue reading

It was Friday and we had just finished 4th period Gym Class.  We were walking to the cafeteria when we ran into Coach Clay.  He was crying.  He looked at us and said “They killed President Kennedy”.  We went on to lunch… nobody really was eating.  November 22, 1963.  This began a series of moments… Continue reading

I picked her in a classic Victorian neighborhood just north of downtown.  It was a simple ride to LODO on a glorious spring day.   We began an affable conversation about “life in general”.  She was warm, articulate, insightful  and curious about my Lyft stories.  The often asked “What was your most interesting ride”? came… Continue reading

It’s no secret that I am a sports fan.  Some of my favorite kid memories are going to Runyon Field with my Dad and his buddies to watch the AA Pueblo Dodgers (The Brooklyn Dodger’s farm team).  It is for that reason I despise the Yankees and put them in the category with the Patriots,… Continue reading

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