by Mitch Albom | Apr 21, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Imagine you and your spouse are hurrying to the airport for an important trip. Your mother was in a car accident. Or your father suffered a heart attack. Or your only child is getting married the next day. Suddenly, on the highway entering the airport, you come to a...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 14, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
At the moment of truth, he ran away, avoided the tackle, as if there were some goal line he could cross and be safe — safe from the charges, the handcuffs, the police, the cameras, the courts, the blood of the victims they say he killed, maybe even the death penalty....
by Mitch Albom | Apr 7, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
My first job was in a baseball park. I sold programs. I was 11. Looking back, I don’t even know how they allowed it. I wasn’t yet 5 feet tall, and my voice hadn’t changed. But every game I would descend into the bowels of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, pick a...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 7, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Over the years, there have been many words used to describe Chauncey Billups — Cool, Smooth, Most Popular Guy in the Room, Mr. Big Shot — but most people don’t remember this one: Bust. That’s what they were calling him after his first three years in the league....
by Mitch Albom | Mar 24, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
On Thursday night, when lightly regarded Oakland University took down legendary powerhouse Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA tournament, what Oakland coach Greg Kampe noticed was the sound. “The noise,” he marveled, reflecting on how the crowd grew...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 17, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
This is not an adventure story. It may sound like one, with eight Americans, one Frenchman and one Canadian racing in the dark to a thrumming helicopter, as a U.S congressman yells “Go! Go! Go!’’ and the blades lift the bird into the Haitian sky, amidst prayers that...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 25, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Look, nobody is against getting money back from the government. That, we all can rally around. The fact that this is not happening with President Joe Biden’s decision to forgive another $1.2 billion in student loan debt tells us something. It tells us that...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 18, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
When our little girl was sick, and we were searching for an hour of escape, we would take her to Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum. She loved it. She rode a miniature carousel and played old arcade games. She forgot about doctors and needles and...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 17, 2024 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
LAS VEGAS — Now you know why he gets all those commercials. In overtime, in the Super Bowl, in the final minutes of the seventh longest game in NFL history, Patrick Mahomes took control of his team, the night, and football history. Running his way out of trouble and...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 11, 2024 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Most of us were told, at some point in our lives, that we were too young. Too young to play with an older sibling. Too young to get into a certain movie. Too young for a particular job. I remember once, in my 30s, when trying to convince a publisher to take on a...
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