If you wanted help with your love life, would you ask an ex-homeless person who had once been a drug user and, in between, spent time in transcendental meditation, celibacy, and a marriage that collapsed after two years?Of course you would. At least, many of us are. Check out the book sales for "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus." People are gobbling it up in a frenzied rush, hoping to solve their relationship woes.This, by the way, is a very American thing to do. When in doubt, buy a book.
I find them in the basement, right were I left them, on a dusty shelf, squeezed together, like cold cuts in a sandwich. Janis Joplin. The Beach Boys. The King and I. Did I always have this many? "Long time, no see," I say.My albums say nothing.Are they mad? It has been a while. Ever since that birthday, seven years ago, when the CD player arrived. It was black and shiny, with cool new gadgets and a little drawer that opened and closed.
The room was full of shoulda-been heroes. Mel Gray, who took a kickoff and burst like a gazelle through the guts of the Tampa Bay defense, an out-of-your-seat touchdown that had teammates on hands and knees thanking God for his presence. Gray shoulda been the hero. But now he tucked in his shirt and pulled on his belt. "It would've been nice," was all he would say.
Raise your hand if you ever felt like running away from home.Raise your hand if you ever felt your parents ignored you.Raise your hand if you ever felt you'd rather live with another family, one that had more fun and more money.Hmm. A lot of hands. Now consider what happened in a Florida courtroom last week: 12-year-old Gregory Kingsley was officially "divorced" from his natural parents and awarded to foster parents -- one of whom happens to be a lawyer who helped represent the boy in court.
* LIONS 28, BUCS 20: Sorry, Tampa. I know you enjoyed that brief moment at the top. But your 15 minutes are up.* CHICAGO 21, ATLANTA 20: This should be a good contest. I know a better one: Mike Ditka and Jerry Glanville, middle of the field, in mud wrestling.
Let's face it. Even though men and women live together, work together and sleep together, they are not always on the same page. MAN (watching Three Stooges): Ho! Haha! WOMAN: I'm leaving you. MAN: What's that, hon--ahaaahahaheee!Nowhere is this difference more apparent than in the world of sports, where men will tell you, on the scale of Truly Important Things In Life, there is 1) the 1975 World Series, 2) who was better in his prime, Magic or Bird? 3) the polio vaccine.Whereas women have it all backwards.
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.
