Detroit Free Press

Michigan Icon Retires from…The Greatest Job

Michigan Icon Retires from…The Greatest Job

You don't own Michigan football. It owns you. You don't steer that magic carpet. The carpet lets you ride. When you step off that perch, when your adventure ends, someone else gets on, and you are back on earth, feet to the ground. The best you can hope for is a fond wave and a fond wave back.

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.

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