LEXINGTON, Ky. -- You find me in the basement, under a long-haired wig, strumming a guitar in front of a video camera."What's up?" you ask."WAYNE'S WORLD! WAYNE'S WORLD!""I beg your pardon?" you say.Come on. I am preparing. We all should be preparing. By "we," I mean people who are over 30, and, therefore, soon to be put out to pasture."What are you talking about?" you say."Michigan," I say glumly.
Who is that guy? What's keeping him up there, floating toward the -- look there he goes again, up and slam! -- he's gotta be jet-propelled or something. He comes out of nowhere, and then -- wait, there he goes again uuuuuppppp annnnnd slam! Whooee! Those long arms, the grip, the way he sucks the ball in then floats toward the hoop. He just hangs there, waiting, living in the breeze. He looks so natural, so right.
* Green Bay 21, Detroit 20: I picked the Lions to beat the Redskins. I was wrong. I picked the Lions to beat the Cardinals. I was wrong. I picked the 49ers to beat the Lions. I was wrong. Maybe I'll be wrong again. Pick vs. spread: Green Bay.* Pittsburgh 15, Jacksonville 9: Question: What's the difference between a broken egg and this year's Steelers? Answer: You can explain a broken egg. Pick vs. spread: Jacksonville.
I guess getting away from it all just ain't what it used to be.I have just returned from five weeks in Europe, and here is the thing I remember most: It was not a French schoolboy skipping down a cobblestone street; it was not a lovely serenade on a canal boat in Venice.It was CNN.
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.
