by Mitch Albom | Jul 26, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I am from the generation whose mothers preached “Don’t ever get in a car with a stranger!” So right from the start, Uber had me nervous.Let’s see. You download an app onto your phone. You type in where you are. A driver you never met before suddenly appears, knows...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 19, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Why is everyone so worried about Donald Trump? Does anyone really think he’s going to be president? I’m not sure he even wants to be president. He’s a buffoonish businessman who seems to have dedicated his life to collecting piles of money, escaping debt,...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 12, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Most of us can remember being sent to our rooms, or forced to sit at the table all night until we finished our vegetables.Few of us were ever sent to juvenile detention for not speaking to our parents.But that’s what happened to three children from the well-to-do...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 5, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I got to sit in on a rehearsal for “Ernie” this past week. It is a wonderful perk of creating a play, the open invitation to watch actors work. Like hearing the legendary Ernie Harwell himself, the production, for me, is like going back in time. Especially...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 28, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In the centuries that straight Americans like me have had exclusive domain over marriage, we have managed to take it from a sacred and bindinginstitution to one that ends in divorce nearly half the time. We’re taken it from a union of fidelity to one in which...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 21, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
A white daughter is born to white parents. At some point, she identifies with being black. As a young woman, she changes her appearance, her skin, her hair, and she begins referring to herself as mixed-race. She is later assumed to be African American. She ultimately...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 14, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
As I write this column, there is a 5-year-old girl at my feet, playing with flash cards. She lives in a Haitian orphanage. Her mother died. Her father is absent. She has been staying with us due to a medical issue.In her brief time in our Michigan home, her response...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 7, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Jim Harbaugh, the new Michigan football coach, caused a major stir this past week on the Internet. It wasn’t something he said. It wasn’t a player he recruited.He took off his shirt.I’m not kidding.He took off his shirt, at a football camp in...
by Mitch Albom | May 24, 2015 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
My first boss was short and thick-necked and told me not to come back until all my baseball programs had been sold.I was 11.My second boss was a janitor who told me not to sweep so fast, because it made him look bad.I was 14.My third boss was a Kentucky...
by Mitch Albom | May 21, 2015 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
In sports, as you know, when they say it’s not about the money, it’s always about the money. Mike Babcock never said it wasn’t about the money. Good thing, too. Because when you’re talking about $50 million over eight years for a hockey...
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