by Mitch Albom | Jul 25, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
You’re in line at the bank. The person ahead of you is talking to the cashier. Minutes pass. “What’s taking so long?” you wonder. You’re in traffic. You switch to the left lane. The person in front of you is going under the speed limit. “Why so slow?” you grouse....
by Mitch Albom | Jun 13, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I used to love to eat in restaurants. Five or six nights a week. When I say “used to” I don’t mean when I was a kid. I mean pre-COVID-19, about a year and a half ago. But now, even vaccinated, and with nearly all (surviving) restaurants open and willing to seat...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 11, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It began as many relationships do. Apprehension. A feeling out process. A brief moment of intimacy. Since then, it has grown. One meeting led to two. Two to five. Five to 10. It’s been months, many months. By my count, we have now had 22 dates. That’s a lot, no?...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 14, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
If we knew the coronavirus war would be, essentially, one year of acute suffering followed by gradual relief, would we have behaved differently?
by Mitch Albom | Feb 7, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It was one year ago today that a man named Li Wenliang died. Maybe you remember him. Maybe you don’t. But today we all should. Because he wasn’t the first person in China to die of COVID-19, but he was possibly the first to try and warn people about it. And he...
by mitchalbom_webmaster | Nov 8, 2020 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
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...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 4, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
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...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 23, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
Now that our governor is finished with her shark week, perhaps she can bite into a small but persistent inequity in our COVID-19 shutdowns that, frankly, has gone on too long. Movie theaters. They have been closed in Michigan, with the exception of the Traverse City...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 16, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Comment
I work with kids. A lot. Many of them don’t speak English. The best tool I have, when we need to communicate, is the three or four inches between my nose and chin, and the two or three inches between theirs. If they don’t understand something, I push up a...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 12, 2020 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
It was like lining up for a kickoff, then waiting for months, then charging madly to the ball … and watching it flop off the tee. After a spring of wishful thinking, a summer of flimflamming, and 48 hours of confusing, closed-door debates, the Big Ten has finally...