ATLANTA -- It's true, I admit, I've done my share of knocking badminton at the Summer Games. Like millions of others, I couldn't understand how something you play after roasting marshmallows could qualify as an Olympic sport. Birdies? Shuttlecocks? The jokes were almost too easy, and I took every one.
ATLANTA -- You take an idea. Get everyone in the world together, in one place, at one time, under one flag, for one cause. It is preposterous. It is unfathomable. But you circle it and you study it and you begin to chip away, like a sculptor on a mountain of granite.
ATLANTA -- As they say down in Georgia, whooooooeeeeeee, Bubba! It's time for the Olympic Games, where athletes from around the world gather for that one glorious, magical moment when they can be overshadowed by a Charles Barkley news conference.
LONDON -- Now I know the real reason our forefathers left this country: the rain.I'm not kidding. The way it's been coming down, I'd have been on a boat, too. "America? Yeah, yeah, fine. Just get me outta here."This has been the wettest week I can remember. At Wimbledon, they have a budding tradition: play a game, run inside, play a game, run inside. It's not strawberries and cream anymore, it's strawberries and skim milk.Excuse me, I have to help pull the tarp over the grass . . .
Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.
