by Mitch Albom | Jun 4, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
SANTIAGO, Chile − Here’s one way to do it. Plan for several years, save your money, make deep dives into the internet, and reserve a trip of a lifetime. That’s how I got here, to South America, first time ever in countries such as Ecuador, Peru and Argentina. We have...
by Mitch Albom | May 28, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
My doctor is retiring. I am heartbroken. For 30 years, he’s been the first line of defense. A strange pain here? Give him a call. A stomach issue there? Give him a call. Time for a physical? Give him a call. Need a vaccine? Give him a call. For 30 years, whenever...
by Mitch Albom | May 21, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
For my birthday this year, I’m getting a bus. Renting it. Not buying it. I do this every year. I don’t get presents. I don’t want presents. I want a bus full of friends and family to join me on an annual excursion. We do one thing and one thing only, all day long: Pig...
by Mitch Albom | May 14, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
How should we react to people who are homeless? It’s an issue facing more and more Americans, as the problem keeps swelling, particularly in our cities. One reaction is to run from the word. Using “homeless,’’ or specifically “the homeless,” has been assailed by...
by Mitch Albom | May 7, 2023 | Detroit Free Press, Sports
Last week, Hunter Dickinson, arguably the best player on the Michigan basketball team, posted a message on social media. The message was simple: I’m leaving for greener pastures. Oh, he didn’t put it that way. Dickinson called his transfer to another...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 30, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The appeal of the NFL draft is that it’s shopping with someone else’s money. You get to cheer, criticize, yell “Buy!” or “Don’t buy!” and it doesn’t cost you a thing. The one person whom it does cost — and therefore the only one who matters — is the general manager....
by Mitch Albom | Apr 16, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Do you remember the opening to the old TV show “Get Smart”? In it, a secret agent named Maxwell Smart marches purposely into a building, walks into a fake elevator, passes through a series of steel doors, enters a phone booth, dials a special number, then drops...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 9, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Caitlin Clark did it first. Let’s be clear about that. The Iowa women’s basketball star, after hitting yet another 3-point basket in an NCAA tournament game against Louisville, ran her hand in front of her face in a gesture that wrestling fans, athletes and young...
by Mitch Albom | Apr 2, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Everybody loses. We are heading into hell. We are no longer the United States of America. We are the Divided States of Trump. Ask yourself, when word came down on Thursday that Donald Trump would be indicted — the first president in American history to...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 26, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — There is a teacher here at our orphanage who uses a walker to get around. Her legs and hips, twisted from a disease, make walking difficult. But she does it, every school day, going from her home to a van, from a van to the parking lot, from...
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