by Mitch Albom | May 19, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Tonight is the final episode of “Game of Thrones.” This means nothing on a how-does-it-change-the-world scale, unless you are one of millions who have watched this show from the beginning, which I believe was the Paleolithic Era. In which case, it feels like it’s the...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 29, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
ZIMBABWE — I was in a hotel room here, minutes away from one of the seven natural wonders of the world, when I got the phone call that Judge Damon Keith had died. Only hours earlier, I had stood in the glorious spray of Victoria Falls, the largest waterfall on the...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 14, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
God is tied. A recent survey showed there are now as many Americans who claim “no religion” — 23 percent — as there are who identify as Catholic or evangelical, the two largest affiliations. This trend has been rising steadily, reportedly growing nearly 270 percent in...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 31, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Not long ago, we were talking about living to 120. Remember? Science and medicine were advancing so rapidly, we figured to double the life expectancy of our grandparents. What would we do with all those extra years? Apparently, we can stop worrying about that. At...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 24, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
This is a story about the streets of Detroit, and their empty, abandoned, overgrown lots, and by this point you’re thinking crime, violence, heartbreak. And I’m thinking … honey. It’s the first week of spring, so why not, instead of the same old negative talk, focus...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 18, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
There’s a famous scene in “Casablanca” where the corrupt police chief played by Claude Rains shuts down Humphrey Bogart’s casino. “I’m shocked — shocked — to find that gambling is going on in here!” Rains deadpans. A croupier then hands him a wad of cash. “Your...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 3, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
In 1941, the year America entered World War II, Ernie and Lulu Harwell entered the world of matrimony. Thankfully, the latter engagement far outlasted the former. But then, the latter was based on love, real, unbreakable love, the love borne of respect and honor and...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 24, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Tonight is the Academy Awards, so perhaps it’s fitting that last week’s biggest story was an actor’s excellent performance — in an accused hoax. Jussie Smollett from the TV show “Empire,” a name relatively few Americans knew last month and a great number know now (and...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 17, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
You’re in the shower. The phone rings. Your husband is out of town and you’ve been waiting for his call. You push through the curtain, your hair full of shampoo, you grab the phone and blurt out, “Hello?” “Hello,” a voice answers, “this is Cindy with card...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 27, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Some things you never forget, no matter how much you might want to. Guy Stern, of West Bloomfield, cannot forget the day he left Germany, in 1937, because he was the only member of his family allowed to go. He had an uncle in America who could sponsor one person, and...
