by Mitch Albom | Oct 9, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
This past week, Jews across the world commemorated their most holy day, Yom Kippur, in which they asked for forgiveness from God and their fellow human beings. They might have asked for protection, too. On that same day, plastic bags filled with rocks and...
by Mitch Albom | Oct 2, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
The old quote claims that “90% of life is showing up.” I wonder if the other 10% is geography. Hurricane Ian didn’t just strike Florida last week, it ravaged it. Entire coastlines were rearranged. Hotels leveled. Houses destroyed. Concrete streets were lifted and...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 25, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
DANA POINT, Calif. − What does courage look like? Does it have a face? A style? A barking loud voice? Or is it rather, as I believe, a sort of quiet deep within that lets you fight when others would flee? I had a chance to see courage up close Friday night, at an...
by Mitch Albom | Sep 18, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It was a pretty wild week at Martha’s Vineyard. Just as the wealthy Massachusetts island of sandy shores and picturesque lighthouses was heading sleepily into the offseason, it found itself thrust into the national spotlight, when about 50 migrants — mostly, if...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 28, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Remember the movie “Office Space”? When a depressed worker named Peter recalls how, in high school, the guidance counselor would ask what you would do if you had a million dollars and didn’t have to work. “And whatever you’d say,” he laments,...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
This isn’t supposed to be happening. A man my age, warming up baby formula, peeling back dirty diapers, holding my nose as I deposit them into a bag. This isn’t supposed to be happening. An infant wailing, me lifting her over my shoulder, just above a small towel, and...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 14, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Years ago, when I was in my 20s, I was living in New York City. One day, I invited two young cousins over for some sightseeing. We were standing outside my apartment building, looking at a map, when a bottle came dropping from a window high above and smashed the...
by Mitch Albom | Aug 7, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Brittney Griner, who sits in a Russian prison cell as I write this, is indeed a member of a group. But not the groups some people suggest. Former President Donald Trump said Griner is “a spoiled person” who was “loaded up with drugs” and would make a “bad trade”...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 24, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a book called “Tuesdays with Morrie.” Many of you know that. Twenty-three years ago, Oprah Winfrey produced a movie of “Tuesdays with Morrie.” Many of you know that as well. Twenty years ago, I wrote, along with renowned playwright...
by Mitch Albom | Jul 17, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
In the famous baseball sing-along, the suggestion is we “root, root, root for the home team, if they don’t win it’s a shame.” But for many Americans and their news choices, it seems that rooting against is more of a draw. Consider an Axios report that came...