Home For The Holidays

I just finished reading Home For The Holidays, another in the series of comic "Murf" novels by the late Gary Reilly.  These stories feature Denver cab driver Murf, who tries not to get involved in the personal lives of his fares, but always does anyway.  Murf lives in Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood, on the top floor of an old house converted into apartments.  He enters it via an outside stairway, much like the one that can be seen in the background of the above photograph.  This time Murf goes home to Wichita for Christmas, mixing with his many Irish relatives and trying to prevent an old school chum from making a horrible mistake: getting a regular job.  Murf believes that taxi driving is not work, and only drives enough to pay for his minimal expenses. These stories are amusing and kind of corny, but are a good change of pace from more serious fare.  I heartily recommend them.