One of my Uber Chronicles stories. My next passenger looks to be in his early 30s. White, medium height and medium build. Blond. He’s wearing a Washington Nationals baseball cap. I’m taking him to a friend’s home in Chevy Chase, a very nice neighborhood right outside of D.C.  I notice the car in…

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. Next up, I’m headed to an upscale restaurant in an upscale part of northern Baltimore City. Here, the streets are all recently paved and marked with brand-spanking-new reflective paint including the prettiest and most clearly marked bike lanes mine eyes have ever seen. These fresh, maintained and…

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. My passenger is white, 16, female. She smells like soap, but not girly soap. Soap. She’s heading to school, though it’s after 10:30 a.m.  She says she missed the school bus, then she tried to go to school this morning but the traffic was so bad she…

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. My next passenger is six minutes away. I find myself at a community college; it’s a nice-looking campus. As I approach my passenger, he thoughtfully waves his hand to identify himself to me. I appreciate this tremendously. He gets in the front seat.  He’s in his early…

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. ( Photo clearly isn't my passenger. Duh.) I drive a few minutes and am directed by GPS onto a quiet road with dozens of police cars parked alongside it. What? Oh, I’m near a police station or some sort of police headquarters office. The Uber app…

One of my Uber Chronicles   stories. Mall and retail pickups are often confusing to us Uber drivers because many times all we see is the address of the shopping center. The whole, entire massive shopping center. We don’t always see the store name where someone is waiting for a pickup. So when my…

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. Beep! I pick up a young kid who is leaving a friend’s house after being there in the afternoon and into the early evening. He sits right next to me in the passenger seat. He’s the first and, so far, the only individual rider who has sat…

Here's the intro to the third book in my Uber Chronicle's series, One Driver, 35 Rides, Countless Stories. In July 2016, a TechCrunch article stated that Uber had completed over 2 billion rides for passengers. Two billion! (2022 stats updated: 1.44 billion rides are completed through Uber every quarter. Times, they are a-changin’.) In this book,…

Uber Chronicles? What’s that about? I drive for Uber (here and there) and I write about each and every one of my passengers. Some stories are shorter, some are longer, but I do write about each passenger and my interaction with them. I’ve noticed with some other books from Uber drivers a tendency to cherry pick…

Fourteen minutes away is my next ride. I take it. I’m in a part of Baltimore now that I’ve not been in before. It’s out of the city center, out of the area with fancy hipster bars and restaurants. The small, old, same-same houses are still dense and tightly connected, as they are in the…

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. My next ride is to ferry a woman from her home to her tutoring gig  (her car has a flat tire) at a nearby learning academy. She’s thin, a mom of two, married, Black, mid-30s and delightfully smart. She’s getting her Master’s degree in education and plans…

Doubt I'm the first, nor will I be the last, writer to turn to friends to ask for a book review. Here's what some of my friends had to say after reading one (or more) of the Uber Chronicles' books. ~ You tell great stories! Keep them coming! My sister drives Uber & finds it entertaining…