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Uber Tales: Around the City, Edition

I know I said I’d take things a little lighter and easier here. I’ve got to quit saying stuff like that because this isn’t a light and easy read. Maybe when I get my grove going on my hard books I’ll be able to do light and easy. But today is not that day. I tell people in my almost four years (yes, it’ll be fours years as an Uber driver at the end of this coming March), I’ve probably been in…

Waking Up From History

Yesterday was the inauguration of Joseph Biden as the forty-sixth President of the United States along with Kamala Harris as Vice-President. It was a beautiful, hopeful, and moving ceremony. It was a true, peaceful transition of power in front of a place that just two weeks before was the site of the first, and hopefully last, attempted coup in the United States. My first thought yesterday was…