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 […]
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 […]