by Mitch Albom | Aug 13, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I want a moratorium. No new tech inventions. For 10 years. No new apps. No new devices. Nothing gets smaller. Nothing gets faster. We hold where we are for a decade. And give everyone a chance to catch up. Yeah, yeah. I hear the folks at Google and Meta and Apple...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 6, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Recently, I’ve been taking a lot of children to doctors. It’s giving me a certain déjà vu — but not the kind you think. Five young ones, ages 1, 3, 7, 10 and 12 are currently in our house, all children from the Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage in...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 23, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Tony Bennett once waited for my mother to get out of the bathroom. You won’t read that in any of the glowing obituaries being written for him this weekend, but it’s true. He was performing at the Fox Theatre for a charity benefit I had organized, and it happened to be...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 9, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
BRECKENRIDGE, Colorado — I used to dream of living in the mountains. I grew up in a flat suburb, where the biggest elevation was a hill by an apartment building. It took 20 seconds to climb, and three seconds to sled down. So it wasn’t what you’d call “majestic.” Over...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 25, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The old football coach had a new team. They were young. They were skinny. Many were small. And they had never played the game before. “All right, first things first, we gotta have a quarterback,” Lloyd Carr said. For a man who once...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 18, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
You think this is hard? Getting fired from an elite NBA team right after the playoffs? That’s not hard. Finding a new job? Not hard. Moving to a new city? Not hard. Taking on a struggling franchise that has been losing since the Obama administration? Not hard. No....
by Mitch Albom | Jun 11, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — So we thought it would be a good idea to see a soccer game here in Argentina. It is, after all, the birthplace of Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, both of whom are painted like saints everywhere in this city, from office buildings to...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 4, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
SANTIAGO, Chile − Here’s one way to do it. Plan for several years, save your money, make deep dives into the internet, and reserve a trip of a lifetime. That’s how I got here, to South America, first time ever in countries such as Ecuador, Peru and Argentina. We have...
by Mitch Albom | May 28, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
My doctor is retiring. I am heartbroken. For 30 years, he’s been the first line of defense. A strange pain here? Give him a call. A stomach issue there? Give him a call. Time for a physical? Give him a call. Need a vaccine? Give him a call. For 30 years, whenever...
by Mitch Albom | May 21, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
For my birthday this year, I’m getting a bus. Renting it. Not buying it. I do this every year. I don’t get presents. I don’t want presents. I want a bus full of friends and family to join me on an annual excursion. We do one thing and one thing only, all day long: Pig...
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