by Mitch Albom | Nov 18, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
This Thanksgiving, I’m setting an extra table. It’s not for the kids. We have one of those, with little plates of cut-up turkey, and little legs dangling from the chairs, and little heads that fall asleep on little forearms as the night wears on. It’s not for the...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 11, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
There’s an old joke about two people in a restaurant. One says, “The food here is terrible.” The other says, “Yeah, and such small portions!” I thought about that when Michigan legalized recreational marijuana last week. The goal, at least partly, was to redirect the...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 4, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
This weekend, American Jews gathered in synagogues for Sabbath services, more fearful than they’d been the weekend before. They wondered if some murderous madman might now enter their sanctuaries. For them, it was hard to imagine an issue more critical. But elsewhere...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 28, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
The word sanctuary conjures a place of safety. A place where you will not be harmed. In religious terms, it is a place on Earth where you are closest to God. It was none of that Saturday morning. Not in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, which reportedly housed a...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 14, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Last time I checked, the only squirrel that could fly on his own was in “Rocky and Bullwinkle.” Others would presumably need an airplane. But in today’s world, that’s not a problem. You never know what furry creature might be scurrying up the aisles. And...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 7, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
It was the early 1980s, just after Dave Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for his sports writing in the New York Times. Dave, in his early 50s, was a major voice at the most important newspaper in the city. And I was a struggling young musician, needing money. I found...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 30, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Do you remember “Animal House?” At the end of that movie, about a wild fraternity in the 1960s, the frat brothers are frozen, one by one, above a sentence that shows where each ends up. The last character, everybody’s favorite, is John Belushi’s perpetually...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 23, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
The request was simple. Happens all the time. A University of Michigan student who planned to study a semester abroad asked one of her professors for a recommendation letter. He was willing to do it. And then he changed his mind. Not because she wasn’t a good student....
by Mitch Albom | Sep 16, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
PORT AU PRINCE, HAITI – As I finish this, I am in a vehicle about to pull up to our orphanage. I will likely be greeted by a happy rush of children, whom I haven’t seen in a month, jumping and squealing and asking if I brought them anything. It is the best way to...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 9, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
It was called a “feel good” story, but it was all about feeling bad. A 50-year-old woman was shopping with her 40-year-old wife at a Trader Joe’s in New Jersey. At the checkout counter, they noticed a slightly heavyset cashier with a graying beard. He was...
