Remember that disease a few years ago, chronic fatigue syndrome, where people felt exhausted all the time, their heads drooping on their desks, as if -- well, as if they'd just run a marathon and had to go to work?Meet Doug Kurtis.Who just ran a marathon and had to go to work. "That's not unusual for me," says the 41-year-old with the full-time job who has won more marathons than anyone else in history. "One time I ran in Tahiti, took the night flight back, landed the next morning and went straight to the office."
Attention: young people about to graduate college. Put down that beach ball!This is not a typo. I went to graduation ceremonies at George Washington University last weekend, and all during the speech -- made by a prominent government leader -- the students were tossing a beach ball, punching it from section to section, like at a Jimmy Buffet concert. I kept waiting for someone to interrupt the future of global economy by yelling "PLAY MARGARITAVILLE, DUDE!"
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.