by Mitch Albom | Jan 29, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
This is how ChatGPT works. You go to your device, you sign up, it prompts you to ask any question in the world, and you do so. Then you shiver. Because what spits back, instantly, is the answer to almost anything, in clear, basic language that sounds like someone is...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 22, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Who deserves a second chance? I think most people would answer, “most people.” Last weekend, inside Nazarene Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, a group of folks sat in a circle and put this theory to the test. Filling one chair was Michigan Supreme Court Justice...
by Mitch Albom | Jan 15, 2023 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Maybe it’s a guy thing. Guys in America don’t grow up wanting to be princes. They don’t play with prince dolls. They don’t dress as princes for Halloween. So I guess it’s no surprise if, once they become adults, American men have little interest in princes. And I...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 11, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Every Sunday at noon, when many are eating brunch or getting ready for a football game, a room full of chairs awaits in the Zekelman Holocaust Center on Orchard Lake Road. Maybe a few dozen people show up, sometimes more, sometimes less. They come to listen to an old...
by Mitch Albom | Dec 4, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
What’s a mountain, what’s a molehill? It’s getting pretty hard to tell in American media. On Friday, Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, promised a bombshell report concerning Twitter’s involvement in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story. And since Twitter is...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 27, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
A new Chick-fil-A recently went up a mile from my home. We knew it was coming — by the size of the parking lot. In case you’ve been living under a bun lately, Chick-fil-A is a fast food chain that has been around since the 1940s, but feels as if it was just discovered...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 13, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I looked. Really hard. I went up and down my ballot in the voting booth last Tuesday, scanning all the candidates. I never saw Donald Trump. Yet here we are, almost a week after the election, and if you surveyed coverage of the results so far — and the reasons given...
by Mitch Albom | Nov 6, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
I heard a knock upon my door And opened it to see All the poor around the nation Looking back at me In ragged clothes and worn-out shoe With families to feed They held their hands out, hopefully, Could I address their need? “Too many,” I said, overwhelmed, And shut...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 30, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
On a recent visit to the cemetery where my parents are buried, I was reminded of a bothersome fact: I have yet to choose my final resting place. I’ve given it thought. I know I should deal with it. But as that old song says: I just don’t know what to do with myself. I...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 23, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti − “It’s unbelievable.” We say that all the time. These gas prices? They’re unbelievable. This inflation? It’s unbelievable. The divisiveness between political factions? It’s unbelievable. The word itself suggests the situation has reached its...