March 18, 2024

Digital Nomads

By David Haldane March 18, 2024     I should have been there. Billed as the Philippine’s first Digital Nomad Summit scheduled on Siargao Island last […]
February 26, 2024

Taking a Break for Heartbreak

By David Haldane Feb. 26, 2024     It was the worst night of my life. I had just learned that my (now-ex) Filipino wife had […]
February 11, 2024

A Late Reinvention

A true story of true love, no matter how truly unconventional   The Manila Times Sunday Magazine 11 Feb 2024 BY DAVID HALDANE   IT started […]
January 29, 2024

White Privilege

By David Haldane Jan. 29, 2024     It was an easy experiment with predictable results. First my Filipino sister-in-law entered the mall. As always, the […]
January 22, 2024

Eating Dogs

By David Haldane Jan. 22, 2024     I’ve never tasted it. Those who have say it’s like chicken. And to make it less bland, they […]
January 8, 2024

Sputtering Solar

By David Haldane Jan. 8, 2024     If only the sputtering would stop. It attacks suddenly, like an enemy soldier watching from a nearby bush. […]
November 9, 2023

Water

By David Haldane Nov. 9, 2023     I was lathered to the gills, about to step under the spigot, when the darned thing choked up. […]
October 26, 2023

Anxiety

  By David Haldane October 26, 2023     I was having dinner with a Filipino friend at a Manila restaurant recently when he pulled out […]
September 7, 2023

Reverse Diaspora

By David Haldane Sept. 7, 2023     The videos made my stomach churn. They depicted water literally gushing down the streets, almost overturning cars. “Oh […]
August 31, 2023

Renewal

By David Haldane Aug. 31, 2023   We’d been stalled in traffic for more than three hours when we finally called it quits. “Hey,” I gingerly […]
August 3, 2023

Cruelly Tortured (American) Pigs

By David Haldane Aug. 3, 2023   I suppose it was just a matter of time. The day I first heard the anguished squeals of a […]
June 24, 2023

Hey, Joe!

By David Haldane June 15, 2023   It happened again the other day. I was riding my motorcycle along the coast towards downtown Surigao, minding my […]