by Mitch Albom | Oct 2, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The old quote claims that “90% of life is showing up.” I wonder if the other 10% is geography. Hurricane Ian didn’t just strike Florida last week, it ravaged it. Entire coastlines were rearranged. Hotels leveled. Houses destroyed. Concrete streets were lifted and...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 25, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
DANA POINT, Calif. − What does courage look like? Does it have a face? A style? A barking loud voice? Or is it rather, as I believe, a sort of quiet deep within that lets you fight when others would flee? I had a chance to see courage up close Friday night, at an...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 19, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
This is the story of two Detroit Lions players on Sunday, one smaller, one huge, one you can’t stop talking about, the other you probably didn’t know existed. The first Lion is the smaller guy who is currently the biggest buzz on the roster. After...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 18, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It was a pretty wild week at Martha’s Vineyard. Just as the wealthy Massachusetts island of sandy shores and picturesque lighthouses was heading sleepily into the offseason, it found itself thrust into the national spotlight, when about 50 migrants — mostly, if...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 12, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
There’s this little detail fans forget about in the excitement of an NFL preseason, but it makes itself obvious every opening Sunday. The other team. Oh, yeah. Those guys. HBO has left the building. Their cameras are probably filming a “Game of Thrones” episode in...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 11, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
And it’s September. And it’s Sunday. And here comes Lucy from the “Peanuts” cartoon, once again putting down the football and telling us, “Come on, kick it.” Detroit Lions season is upon us. Some of you have seen more of these than me. Some of you...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 28, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Remember the movie “Office Space”? When a depressed worker named Peter recalls how, in high school, the guidance counselor would ask what you would do if you had a million dollars and didn’t have to work. “And whatever you’d say,” he laments,...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
This isn’t supposed to be happening. A man my age, warming up baby formula, peeling back dirty diapers, holding my nose as I deposit them into a bag. This isn’t supposed to be happening. An infant wailing, me lifting her over my shoulder, just above a small towel, and...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 14, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Years ago, when I was in my 20s, I was living in New York City. One day, I invited two young cousins over for some sightseeing. We were standing outside my apartment building, looking at a map, when a bottle came dropping from a window high above and smashed the...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 11, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Prospecting for baseball players is like prospecting for gold: lots of shiny objects, but more often empty pans. Al Avila, 64, was fired on Wednesday for too many empty pans and, in truth, not enough gold from the river. Seven years after the Detroit...
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