by Mitch Albom | May 15, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
For kids like us, it was a magical place. A place you could go on a Saturday morning and transform into someone else, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Buddy Rich. When you dream of music, getting to play an instrument is the first rung on your fantasy ladder. And in...
by Mitch Albom | May 8, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
She will get no flowers today. No brunch at a trendy restaurant. Celest Laurry will wake up early in the lower half of a bunk bed and see her two teenage daughters, honor roll kids in high school, tucked in another bunk bed in an adjacent room. The walls are plain...
by Mitch Albom | May 1, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Truth and America have a long, interesting relationship. We cherish it. We celebrate it. But we can’t seem to agree on it. It’s even mentioned early in the Declaration of Independence: “truths.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 29, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
When good luck falls in your lap, let it. Even if it weighs 260 pounds. The Detroit Lions need a pass rusher? Aidan Hutchinson is a pass rusher. The Lions needed a guy who can play right away? Hutchinson is considered the most NFL-ready player in the draft....
by Mitch Albom | Apr 24, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Once you get a plane up to cruising altitude, pilots say, all you have to do is keep it steady. Of course, that’s harder to do if there’s a lot of turbulence. Which brings us to Matthew Stafford, the ex-Detroit Lions quarterback, the current LA Rams quarterback...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 17, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
What’s this I hear about Elon Musk buying Twitter? #CONFUSED Yeah. He wants to buy it and take it private. #CAPITALISM Can he do that? #NEVERSTUDIEDECONOMICS He can if they let him. But Twitter doesn’t want him to take over. They’re fighting back. They’re afraid...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 8, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.” — Yogi Berra It is love, isn’t it? Love brings you back. Love makes you smile with the morning sun. Love lets you believe, even when it makes no sense to believe. It’s love that...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 3, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In the Woody Allen movie, “Radio Days,” the narrator recalls how his parents could argue over any subject. “Wait a minute,” the father yells at the mother, “are you telling me you think the Atlantic is a greater ocean than the Pacific?” I feel like we’ve reached that...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 20, 2022 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
When Darryl Rogers, the Detroit Lions’ ill-fated football coach from the 1980s, learned that his owner planned to keep him despite three straight losing seasons, he posed this question: “What’s a guy got to do to get fired around here?” I found myself...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 13, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
What would you do if America came under attack? Not from an isolated terror incident, but from an invasion. Armed forces crossing our border, shooting at us and bombing our buildings. Would you stay and fight? Or would you seek out safety for you and your family, even...
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