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...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 20, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
This happens a lot. I’m visiting with someone, or having a meeting, and for some reason I need to make a call, and I reach in my pocket and take out my phone … And the person breaks out laughing. “No way,” they chortle. Or, “Oh, please.” This is because I use a flip...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 6, 2019 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
I made a New Year’s resolution to stay away from angry politics. It took less than a week to blow it. The dynamite to my best-laid plans came off the lips of newly minted Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who, shortly after being sworn in last week — before she took a...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 23, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
Three weeks. That’s how long he had gone without eating. His water intake had been minimal, small sips, whatever he could keep down, and he couldn’t keep much down. Something was wrong with Gaelson, a 7-year-old orphan — at least we think he’s 7, as there...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 16, 2018 | Detroit Free Press, Sunday Comment |
The holidays had me down. The rushing. The commercialism. The endless negative news cycle set against our supposed Christmas spirit. I found myself at a shopping mall. Exhausted, I got in line for a Starbucks. At least I thought it was Starbucks — until I...
