Death – David Haldane

September 29, 2025

Death on a Train

By David Haldane Sept. 29, 2025 The video is hard to watch. A young woman sits alone on a train, looking at her phone […]

September 22, 2025

A Political Assassination

By David Haldane Sept. 22, 2025 My wife had never heard of him. “Do you know who Charlie Kirk is?” she asked as we […]

July 7, 2025

Voices in the Wind

By David Haldane July 7, 2025 It began as a hankering to speak with my dad. Which presented something of a challenge, given […]

March 3, 2025

The Cap with the Shining Red Star

By David Haldane March 3, 2025 It was the cap that got my attention. There it was on the front page of a […]

January 27, 2025

Falling Down the Stairs

By David Haldane Jan. 27, 2025 Seventy-six. That’s how old I am as of last week. It’s a staggering number. And yet I feel like […]

September 2, 2024

Here We Go Again!

By David Haldane Sept. 2, 2024 I awoke this morning to a headline that seemed strangely familiar. “Two more mpox cases detected!” it […]

June 10, 2024

Ode to a Good Friend

By David Haldane June 10, 2024 I woke up this morning to the kind of news no one wants to hear. “My papa […]

March 5, 2024

Reading Your Own Obituary

By David Haldane March 4, 2024 I have a confession. Sometimes I imagine my own obituary. What will it say, I wonder, and how […]

November 16, 2023

Hitler on Lazada

By David Haldane Nov. 16, 2023 It felt like someone had yanked out my kidneys. Unable to sleep, I’d opened my cell phone to Facebook […]

November 2, 2023

Tension

By David Haldane Nov. 2, 2023 The revelation came while I lay leveled on the pavement. Thirty seconds earlier, I’d been speeding home on […]

October 20, 2023

Filipino Love

By David Haldane October 19, 2023 She could have been my sister-in-law. Angelyn Aguirre, a 32-year-old native of Pangasinan, had spent the last six […]

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 […]