by Mitch Albom | Dec 13, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Let me get this straight. Smoking is bad for you, right? It’s bad if you smoke. It’s bad if someone smokes around you. It’s so bad that our state government, like others before it, is now passing a law against smoking in any public place –...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 13, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
What did we really know about Curtis Granderson? He had a nice smile. He had a foundation. He made a few highlight plays in centerfield and had a good first half and a not-so-good second half last year. He’ll be 29 years old. Been an All-Star once. Only once in...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 6, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
December is not even halfway over, but I already know the big story of the last 12 months: This year will be remembered as the year we sold our souls for fame.There was the Octomom, whose thirst for attention led her to auction her life – and her 14 children...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 22, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Ten years ago, he first noticed it. A yellow ceiling stain. A water leak. Year after year it grew worse. Bigger. Darker. Sometimes during Sunday services he would glance up and wonder how much longer the old roof had.Then one morning, in the spring of 2006, he came in...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 22, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
He’s a kid and he’s exciting, he’s a kid and he’s emotional, he’s a kid and maybe he thinks he’s invincible, but he’s a kid and that’s still the final word. On Saturday afternoon, in the last game of the season, Tate...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 20, 2009 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Saturday’s Michigan-Ohio State game is, football-wise, a wet rag. No championships are on the line. The two teams are miles apart.But the overtones, for Rich Rodriguez, are louder than a marching band. Win the game and his job may be secure. Lose it, and the...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 15, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
So how do you think Obama is doing?”The question came not once but many times during a trip this past week to Ireland and England. From friends. From journalists. Even cab drivers.”How do you think Obama is doing?’It was not asked the way we might...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 8, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
When I was a kid, I went to Times Square and looked up at the billboards. They were massive. Biggest signs I ever saw.”How do you get up there?” I asked my grandmother.”You have to be famous,” she said.For the rest of my childhood, that was the...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 1, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The news anchor shakes my hand. “So glad you could make it,” he says.Then he turns, still talking, and presses the nozzle on the hand sanitizer.This is the new American greeting. Howdy, neighbor – let me wipe you off. The current hysteria over the...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 25, 2009 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
If a bank gives you a mortgage, it sets the rates, right? If a credit card company issues you a Visa, it tells you the terms, correct?Then why do financial institutions bailed out by the government cry foul when that government – i.e. their bank – wants to...
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