by Mitch Albom | Apr 6, 2008 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Last week, I learned that my longtime book publisher was resigning to try something new. A senior member of his staff would replace him. In short, I had lost an old boss and gained a new one. It got me thinking how many times this has happened in my life, and how...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 1, 2008 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The day began in drizzled depression, gray misty skies, a shivering wind, scattered puddles of melted snow and “For Sale” signs everywhere you looked. As you drove into downtown Detroit, the only blinking evidence of life was the traffic signals and the...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 30, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
Prayer is good. But it doesn’t mean you can just sit there.An 11-year-old Wisconsin girl grew deathly ill recently while her parents prayed for her recovery. They weren’t in a hospital. They weren’t in an emergency room. They were in their home....
by Mitch Albom | Mar 30, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
MITCH ALBOM No Why? The Tigers won’t make the World Series as currently constructed. They have to get a better bullpen. You can slug your way to the playoffs but not through them. However, if a closer emerges and if Joel Zumaya and Fernando Rodney ever stay...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 25, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
They call him the Hip-Hop Mayor, but that always has been misleading, for he is less a musician than a jock, with a jock’s sense of entitlement, a jock’s bully muscle, a jock’s entourage, a jock’s approach to women, and, most of all, a...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 23, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
We crucify the man who paid for sex.The woman who charged him, we turn into a star.Go figure. In America, it seems, we like our characters prepackaged. And the prepackaged version of the Eliot Spitzer saga is this: Powerful Man, undone by hubris; Vulnerable Girl,...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 16, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
When you’re drowning, and someone throws you a rope, you don’t ask for his ZIP code.The Detroit City Council might be wise to remember that, in light of one of the dumbest decisions I have witnessed in my time here.The council voted to withhold certain...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 11, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
After a season of winning, winning and winning some more, all they could do was sit. This is what happens with Big Dances. You wait for an invitation.The Adrian Bulldogs, a remarkable collection of first-year NCAA Division III hockey players, almost all of them...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 9, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
Two weeks back, it was a dog being thrown into a ditch. Last week, it was a toddler being sprayed at a car wash. This week, who knows?I am talking about the now almost-daily phenomenon in which an Internet video circles the world, prompting outrage, scorn, even death...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 2, 2008 | Detroit Free Press
When I went looking to buy my first house, there was a number that wagged a finger in my brain. Twenty percent. That was the down payment. If I couldn’t come up with that, I couldn’t afford the house. Many good homes slipped away. I walked out the front...
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