Fake pot can have real consequencesJune 3, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressIt sounds relatively harmless. Synthetic marijuana. Like pot for people who don't want to get arrested.For a ...Read More
Smiles, Tears for Hockeytown heroJune 1, 2012 | Detroit Free PressThe Ice Man melteth.It took 20 seasons, but those steel blue eyes began to water. The voice quivered. He was out ...Read More
Mitch Albom on Nicklas Lidstrom’s retirementsmiles, tears for Hockeytown heroJune 1, 2012 | Detroit Free PressThe Ice Man melteth.It took 20 seasons, but those steel blue eyes began to water. The voice quivered. He was out ...Read More
Lidstrom: One for the agesMay 31, 2012 | Detroit Free PressA hole just formed on the blue line of Detroit sports.Nicklas Lidstom is retiring.It had to happen, even if we ...Read More
Save the questions for humans, not your phoneMay 29, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressI'm not talking.Not to a phone.It may be all the rage for celebrities in iPhone commercials to have pithy ...Read More
Winans’ attack: We’re all at riskMay 20, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressHe is a famous gospel singer, a TV star, a pastor who gave the stirring eulogy at Whitney Houston's funeral.That ...Read More
Prince FielderThe $214-million mana royal fitMay 20, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, SportsHe laughs with a teammate and pulls on a pair of black shorts. It's nearly a quarter way through the season, and ...Read More
Nursing mother just what the hype doctor orderedMay 13, 2012 | Detroit Free PressWhen I first saw the new Time magazine cover of a nearly 4-year-old boy nursing on his mother's exposed breast, I ...Read More
Her child still missing, a mother soldiers onMay 6, 2012 | Detroit Free PressThere was a movie not too long ago, based on a book called "I Don't Know How She Does It." It was about a working ...Read More
Ernie, two years gone, is still hereApril 29, 2012 | Comment, Detroit Free PressThere's a scene in the play "Ernie" in which the actor playing Ernie Harwell re-enacts the way he broadcast ...Read More
On crazy draft night, was standing still Lions’ best move?April 27, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, SportsThey stayed put. They didn't move. While it seemed like every team in the NFL was making draft-night trades, the ...Read More
Pred alertApril 18, 2012 | Detroit Free Press, SportsIt was one of those movies where the heroes keep pulling out bigger and bigger guns, spraying bullets, launching ...Read More