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What if my Tuesdays with Morrie happened during COVID-19?
Morrie Schwartz died 25 years ago this month, ending Mitch Albom’s weekly Tuesday visits. Would those visits have happened in the age of COVID-19
Sadly, the other winner of the 2020 presidential election is COVID-19
Congratulations are due to President-elect Joe Biden. But in truth, the other real winner was … coronavirus. For all the celebrating on the left, for all the finger-pointing on the right, here is what dominated the presidential election. It wasn’t the...
Election will be meaningless if we don’t change our ways
My editors asked if I planned to write about the election this Sunday and I said yes. Perhaps they hoped I would pen something about the need to vote, a topic I’ve tackled before. But that seems unnecessary. Look at how many people have already voted. We all know the...
I’m convinced Mel Tucker is right man for Michigan State football
Mel Tucker used to drive Nick Saban around. This was 23 years ago, when Saban was the head football coach at Michigan State and Tucker was a first-year graduate assistant. He would marvel at how Saban, sitting next to him, could wedge a briefcase beneath his...
In a nasty nation, there’s an oasis of nice in one Michigan city
To the outside world, it looks like Michigan had a bad week. When 13 of our fellow Americans are arrested for plotting to kidnap our governor, well, that’s not an image we want exported to the rest of the world. The fact that some of those men were...
The power that governs us has been punctured. What we do next will define us.
Now everyone knows someone who has coronavirus. When President Trump sent a simple tweet at 1 a.m. Friday morning — “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19” — it was akin to trumpets bringing down the walls of Jericho. There was no more denying the enemy...
Breaking bread with police to break down barriers
On Wednesday, at the same time a Kentucky attorney general was announcing findings in the Breonna Taylor case, a small group of men and women gathered on Detroit’s east side to eat some barbecue they had cooked outside together. And as cities across America saw...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life could teach us all a lesson
I am not a woman. That’s obvious. But it didn’t keep me from admiring Ruth Bader Ginsburg for years, her courage, her tenacity, her firm belief in being a fair jurist and standing up for issues she believed in. I am not a lawyer. And I did not agree with all...
Devastating week leaves us weary, worn and wondering
Friday night, at the end of a long, draining day, I put on some music. Up came “The Peppermint Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starliters. I found myself enjoying it far more than usual. It’s so simple. So happy. It begins the way many songs from the late 50’s and early...The Next Person You Meet in Heaven
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