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 […]
June 12, 2023

Slaughter, Slaughter Everywhere

By David Haldane June 8, 2023   The headline was a grabber. “We had our own holocaust here,” it grievously intoned. The story that followed–on the […]
April 6, 2023

Finding God in a Telephone Wire

By David Haldane April 6, 2023     A friend told me a secret the other day. “I haven’t said this to anyone,” he assured me, […]
March 9, 2023

The Death of a Tree

By David Haldane March 9, 2023   Though I never touched it personally, my children swung from its branches. And hearing their laughter always filled me […]
February 23, 2023

Turbulence

By David Haldane Feb. 23, 2023     Everyone knows that airplanes crash. That’s why, for years, I’ve always contemplated death when boarding a flight. Could […]
February 17, 2023

American Expat Launches Book on Finding Island Home

Cebu Jose Joya Gallery   LITERARY TREATS 2023: A TOOTH IN MY POPSICLE BY DAVID HALDANE BOOK LAUNCH APRIL 12th, 15th, and 25th.       […]
February 2, 2023

Old

By David Haldane Feb. 2, 2023     I had no idea we were swimming with saviors. It was 2006, and I was in the Philippines […]
November 10, 2022

Scary Monsters

  By David Haldane November 10, 2022   The stories are hard to read. A young woman from Mexico said she felt the weight of other […]