by Mitch Albom | Sep 3, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — This has to stop. That’s what you tell yourself. People cannot live every day with murder and destruction. They cannot live with gangs marching into their neighborhoods, setting their homes on fire and chasing residents into the streets,...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 27, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Of the many challenging moments in life, knowing what to say after a tragedy may be the most awkward. Think of funerals you may have gone to, where a poorly phrased sentiment can leave people shaking their heads. “How could they say that?” mourners wonder. “At a time...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 20, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
There are three things you can be sure of if your life is made into a successful movie. 1) They will get things wrong. 2) Way more people will see the movie than you’ll ever meet in real life. 3) All those people will assume the wrong things are right. The people...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 13, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I want a moratorium. No new tech inventions. For 10 years. No new apps. No new devices. Nothing gets smaller. Nothing gets faster. We hold where we are for a decade. And give everyone a chance to catch up. Yeah, yeah. I hear the folks at Google and Meta and Apple...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 6, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Recently, I’ve been taking a lot of children to doctors. It’s giving me a certain déjà vu — but not the kind you think. Five young ones, ages 1, 3, 7, 10 and 12 are currently in our house, all children from the Have Faith Haiti Mission & Orphanage in...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 23, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Tony Bennett once waited for my mother to get out of the bathroom. You won’t read that in any of the glowing obituaries being written for him this weekend, but it’s true. He was performing at the Fox Theatre for a charity benefit I had organized, and it happened to be...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 9, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
BRECKENRIDGE, Colorado — I used to dream of living in the mountains. I grew up in a flat suburb, where the biggest elevation was a hill by an apartment building. It took 20 seconds to climb, and three seconds to sled down. So it wasn’t what you’d call “majestic.” Over...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 25, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The old football coach had a new team. They were young. They were skinny. Many were small. And they had never played the game before. “All right, first things first, we gotta have a quarterback,” Lloyd Carr said. For a man who once...
by Mitch Albom | Jun 18, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
You think this is hard? Getting fired from an elite NBA team right after the playoffs? That’s not hard. Finding a new job? Not hard. Moving to a new city? Not hard. Taking on a struggling franchise that has been losing since the Obama administration? Not hard. No....
by Mitch Albom | Jun 11, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — So we thought it would be a good idea to see a soccer game here in Argentina. It is, after all, the birthplace of Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, both of whom are painted like saints everywhere in this city, from office buildings to...
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