by Mitch Albom | Sep 18, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It was a pretty wild week at Martha’s Vineyard. Just as the wealthy Massachusetts island of sandy shores and picturesque lighthouses was heading sleepily into the offseason, it found itself thrust into the national spotlight, when about 50 migrants — mostly, if...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 12, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
There’s this little detail fans forget about in the excitement of an NFL preseason, but it makes itself obvious every opening Sunday. The other team. Oh, yeah. Those guys. HBO has left the building. Their cameras are probably filming a “Game of Thrones” episode in...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 11, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
And it’s September. And it’s Sunday. And here comes Lucy from the “Peanuts” cartoon, once again putting down the football and telling us, “Come on, kick it.” Detroit Lions season is upon us. Some of you have seen more of these than me. Some of you...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 28, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Remember the movie “Office Space”? When a depressed worker named Peter recalls how, in high school, the guidance counselor would ask what you would do if you had a million dollars and didn’t have to work. “And whatever you’d say,” he laments,...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
This isn’t supposed to be happening. A man my age, warming up baby formula, peeling back dirty diapers, holding my nose as I deposit them into a bag. This isn’t supposed to be happening. An infant wailing, me lifting her over my shoulder, just above a small towel, and...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 14, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Years ago, when I was in my 20s, I was living in New York City. One day, I invited two young cousins over for some sightseeing. We were standing outside my apartment building, looking at a map, when a bottle came dropping from a window high above and smashed the...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 11, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Prospecting for baseball players is like prospecting for gold: lots of shiny objects, but more often empty pans. Al Avila, 64, was fired on Wednesday for too many empty pans and, in truth, not enough gold from the river. Seven years after the Detroit...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 7, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Brittney Griner, who sits in a Russian prison cell as I write this, is indeed a member of a group. But not the groups some people suggest. Former President Donald Trump said Griner is “a spoiled person” who was “loaded up with drugs” and would make a “bad trade”...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 24, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a book called “Tuesdays with Morrie.” Many of you know that. Twenty-three years ago, Oprah Winfrey produced a movie of “Tuesdays with Morrie.” Many of you know that as well. Twenty years ago, I wrote, along with renowned playwright...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 17, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In the famous baseball sing-along, the suggestion is we “root, root, root for the home team, if they don’t win it’s a shame.” But for many Americans and their news choices, it seems that rooting against is more of a draw. Consider an Axios report that came...
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