This Tiger team needs no introduction to big leagues

by Mitch Albom | Sep 30, 2011 | Detroit Free Press

We were sitting in a famous New York deli once. It was 2 a.m., place was empty, someone ordered a big sandwich, and several of us had a bite. When the bill came, we were charged $17 apiece for sharing.

“Why?” we asked.

“Customers wait for tables,” the waitress said. “We can’t have one eater and others taking up space.”

“But there’s no one else here,” we protested.

“Listen,” she griped, a hand on her hip, “this is New York. It’s the big leagues.”

Want to be part of a great investment?

by Mitch Albom | Sep 25, 2011 | Detroit Free Press

I’m looking for a few good men.

Or women. Or companies. Or churches. Or trusts.

I’m looking for partners – 11 partners, to be precise – to help people like Sherell Garrison, who, at 17, is a jewel of our city, an honor roll student bursting with potential, who, until now, was facing a limited future.

Sherell began drawing as a child on Detroit’s west side. She drew with crayons. She drew with colored pencils. She drew on any available paper and sometimes on the walls of her grandmother’s house.

Vows don’t say ’till sickness do us part’

by Mitch Albom | Sep 18, 2011 | Detroit Free Press

It’s a phrase you hear in almost every marriage ceremony. “Till death do us part.”

But what about a “kind of” death?

Can you “kind of” part?

Pat Robertson seems to think so. The TV evangelist answered a question on his show last week about a man who started seeing another woman after his wife’s Alzheimer’s left her unable to even recognize him anymore.

“I know it sounds cruel,” Robertson said, “but if he’s going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again….”