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March 10, 2020
Episode 20 – The New “C-Word”: Coronavirus, Quarantine And Surviving The Aftermath – Patient speaks out!
Episode 20 The New C-Word: Coronavirus, Quarantine And Surviving The Aftermath Patient speaks out! Subscribe Options Hosts & Guests
Mitch Albom
Lisa Goich
Carl Goldman
Notes & ResourcesCarl Goldmans Blog at Santa Clarita News
Coronavirus Myth Busters from the World Health Organization
Susan Raffo: Coronavirus, Climate Change and Community Care
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March 3, 2020
Episode 19 – No Regrets
Episode 19 No Regrets Subscribe Options Hosts & Guests
Mitch Albom
Lisa Goich
Notes & ResourcesTuesdays with Morrie, The Third Tuesday We Talk About Regrets and The Twelfth Tuesday We Talk About Forgiveness
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January 12, 2020
Chika’s birthday bittersweet, 10 years after Haiti earthquake
She would have turned 10 last week.
We would have had a big party, a big cake, all her friends, all our relatives.
There would have been presents and candles and a very loud Happy Birthday song, and too many people would have asked her, “How does it feel to be double digits now?” and she would have answeredwith something funny, or cute, or just a shouted “Good!” as she scooped a finger full of frosting.
She would have been taller than when we last saw her, for sure, and her face would be...
November 3, 2019
Web Exclusives: Read Excerpt from ‘Finding Chika’ and Watch This from CBS Sunday Morning
Published today in the Detroit Free Press!
In 2013, author and Free Press columnist Mitch Albom admitted a young girl named Chika Jeune into the orphanage he operates in Port Au Prince, Haiti.
Little Chika was born three days before the massive earthquake of 2010, and miraculously survived it, despite her cinder block house collapsing. Albom said she was “born tough.”
Then, when she was 5 years old, Chika was diagnosed with DIPG, an inoperable Stage IV brain tumor. Mitch and his wife, Janine, brought Chika to...
October 6, 2019
Tour Dates Announced for “Finding Chika”
Most of the following events are ticketed and include a signed hardcover copy of the book, and some even raise funds for DIPG research and other great causes in celebration of the release of Finding Chika, in stores November 5, 2019.
More events in Michigan will be added in November and December, as well as additional events in January and February.
Read all about Finding Chika here.
Categories Anniversaries Announcements Book Signings Charity Media ...August 16, 2019
‘Finding Chika’ a “Most Anticipated Listen”
Audible’s Fall Preview has some great round ups of the most eagerly anticipated fall listens in several categories, and “Finding Chika” is featured!
As he has done with all of his books except for The Time Keeper, which was read by Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens, Mitch will be narrating the four-and-a-half hour audiobook, which is available for pre-order NOW at:
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April 14, 2019
Albom Honored with Founders Award
Each year, the Brain Injury Association of Michigan hosts a Spring Tribute Dinner in which its Legacy Society recognizes its newest contributing members and selects as honorary members individuals who have contributed to the brain injury field, or have shown a demonstrated leadership in working to improve lives of persons with brain injuries.
Appearing as a speaker at the April 13, 2019 dinner, Mitch Albom was presented with the Founders Award for his visionary advocacy and support of the bra...
April 13, 2019
‘Next Person’ a Wilbur Award Winner
Presented annually since 1949, The Wilbur Awards are given to secular media – print and online journalism, book publishing, broadcasting, and motion pictures – who have thoughtfully brought religious issues and spiritual themes into the public discourse. This year, the fiction prize went to Mitch Albom for The Next Person You Meet in Heaven. He previously won the award in 2010 in the nonfiction category for Have a Little Faith. See the full list of 22 recipients here.
Unable to attend the cer...
February 26, 2019
2018 Michigan APME Finalists Announced
Finalists in the Michigan Associated Press Media Editors 2018 newspaper contest were announced today. The top three places — the awards in order of finish — will be announced at the annual awards banquet in Lansing on April 28.
Mitch Albom’s column in the Detroit Free Press was selected in the best sports column category. Read it here:
Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl miracle started with guts
by Mitch Albom | Feb 5, 2018
MINNEAPOLIS — Cheesesteaks for everyone. Hoagies on every plate...
February 19, 2019
New book, ‘Chika’ to publish November 2019
**** #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR MITCH ALBOM returns to nonfiction with CHIKA: A little girl, an earthquake, and the making a family ****
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (New York, NY – February 19, 2019) – In November 2019 Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, will publish CHIKA: A little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
by #1 internationally renowned and bestselling author Mitch Albom. With this book the author of Tuesdays With Morrie returns to nonfiction for the first time in over...
