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...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 19, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The best airport in the world, according to a new survey, is in Singapore. The second best is in Qatar. The third is in Tokyo. The fourth is in South Korea. An American airport doesn’t show up on the list until No. 18, behind Rome, Helsinki, Madrid, even...
by Mitch Albom | Mar 5, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The way the country is going, someday soon, we are all going to be brought into a room where a Democratic leader and a Republican leader sit us down and say, “Kids, we have something to tell you. We’re getting divorced.” At least that’s the suggestion by U.S. Rep....
by Mitch Albom | Feb 26, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
He couldn’t walk, but he moved mountains. He couldn’t speak, but he said so much. He couldn’t write, but he left behind countless messages, and his last one, which appeared a few days ago, showing up in hundreds of email boxes, contained the simple, aching phrase:...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 19, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
On Monday morning, students at Michigan State will return to class and attempt, as the saying goes, to pick up the pieces. But the pieces you pick up after a tragic loss are merely the ones that are left. When you put them back together, there is always something...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 12, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The phone rang. I can’t tell you the day. I can’t tell you the month. I can only tell you it was around 25 years ago, and the whispery voice on the other end of the line said: “Hi, it’s Burt Bacharach.” That started a most unlikely friendship. Burt had read one of my...
by Mitch Albom | Feb 5, 2023 | Detroit Free Press
Great. Now it’s balloons. Like we didn’t have enough threats to worry about. Economic collapse. Killer pandemics. Global warming. And now a big white spy balloon that the Chinese say just “blew off course.” Right. And I took a DDOT bus and wound up...