by Mitch Albom | Nov 20, 2022 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
PORT-au-PRINCE, Haiti − I am standing in the sink. Well. Where the sink is supposed to go one day. “We need to put in drainage lines,” the construction man says. “Uh-huh,” I say. I move over a few feet. Now I am standing in the refrigerator. Well. Where the...
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 15, 2021 | Comment, Detroit Free Press
It began on the airplane. The two young men stared out the windows as the island slowly disappeared from view. Neither one had ever left Haiti. Neither had ever slept a night away from home. One of the them, a slender, serious soul named Jhonas, had spent years in a...