Tuesdays with Morrie

Who is Morrie?  Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.  Someone older, patient and wise, someone who understood you while you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you soundadvice to help you make your way through it.  For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his former college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Like Mitch, maybe you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and insights faded, and the world seemed colder.  Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?

Mitch Albom had that second chance.  After he learned that Morrie was suffering from ALS, a form of Lou Gehrig's disease that slowly causes the muscles to detoriate, he rediscovered his professor in the last months of the older man's life.  Morrie, knowing that was he going to die, visited with Mitch in his study even Tuesday, just as they had done back in college, and offered advice on life and death.  Their rekindled relationship turned into one final class: the lessons in life.  Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift to the world and a best selling novel that offers many reflections on everyday life.