by Mitch Albom | Mar 28, 2016 | Detroit Free Press
Did you ever accompany your father on a Take Your Child To Work Day? It was probably fun, but you were glad when it was over. After all, there is a difference between childhood play and adulthood. If not, we’d have briefcases in our cribs. But a Chicago baseball...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 21, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment, Theatre
He was a sweet, funny, kinetic guy who spoke quickly and passionately, and the more serious he got, the lower his voice dropped, like a spy sharing top-secret information over the phone. “Yeah, hi, it’s Lee, I’ve got some issues with the microphones … Yeah, it’s Lee,...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 9, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
The last time I talked with Calvin Johnson, he was at a Detroit recreation center with Matthew Stafford and they were teasing with some young kids. “Man,” one of the kids said, looking up at Johnson’s 6-foot-5 frame, “why didn’t you catch that pass the last game?”...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 6, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
When we were kids, the teacher’s desk was a fearsome island, a place you didn’t approach unless you absolutely had to. Clearly, things have changed. Take what happened when a South Carolina high school teacher left her cell phone on her desk last week to, she says, do...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 29, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Deborah Foster was doing casework in a Pontiac shelter one day, when a woman knocked on the side door just after 5 o’clock. “Could I have something to eat?” she asked. The woman was dressed well, in a business suit with a briefcase and a purse. Her makeup was nicely...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 22, 2016 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
An iPhone 5C is about 5 inches high and a third of an inch thick. Yet inside that small device now swirls a critical debate over our privacy. The iPhone in question belonged to Syed Farook, who, last December, along with his wife, shot and killed 14 people and wounded...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 14, 2016 | Comment, Detroit Free Press, Sports
Years ago, I sat in coach Bo Schembechler’s office as he finished a phone call with a recruit. His voice was unnaturally high and soft, and a smile seemed pasted on his face. When he hung up, he banged the handset into the base and declared, “God, I hate this...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 8, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – In the closing minutes, Von Miller, who would soon become the Most Valuable Player of the Super Bowl, came charging toward the Most Valuable Player of the league, Cam Newton, and grabbed his arm with his left hand as Newton tried to pass. The...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 7, 2016 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
For the Lions, here’s a rhyme, for anyone who’s reading this wintertime ’Tis Super Bowl morning The world’s biggest game But Detroit is silent It’s always the same. For 50 years running We’ve listened to screams Of Super Bowl battles Between other teams. *...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 31, 2016 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
A day before MSNBC came to Flint for a show it would label “American Disaster,” I went for a less-ambitious effort: a radio program to talk with people affected by the water crisis. Several experts joined us, as did Flint’s mayor, Karen Weaver, in an auditorium inside...
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