Infrastructure – David Haldane

May 18, 2023

Empty Corridors

By David Haldane May 18, 2023 Standing alone in the hallway of a darkened hospital, I cursed out loud. Then the situation’s absurdity hit […]

March 16, 2023

The Potential Loss of a Cranky Old Friend

By David Haldane March 16, 2023 A whack on the head. That describes my first encounter with a jeepney. It happened 20 years ago […]

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 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. […]

September 29, 2022

Our Trembling House

By David Haldane September 29, 2022 Our house gets the shakes almost every day. It usually happens in the middle of the night, when […]

August 25, 2022

Invisible

By David Haldane August 25, 2022 Let me confess something right up front: I didn’t begin noticing Filipinos until I married one. Now, 14 […]

August 4, 2022

Paradise Reclaimed. Again

by David Haldane August 4, 2022 There was good news and bad news on our first return to Siargao Island in the wake of […]

July 21, 2022

Reconnecting

By David Haldane July 21, 2022 It started as a tiny niggle. That’s the first sentence of a column I wrote back in 2018, shortly […]

July 14, 2022

Time Travel

By David Haldane July 14, 2022 It’s as if we’ve stepped back in time. Outside our window lies a pile of decaying debris. The veranda […]

April 7, 2022

Another Day Off

By David Haldane April 7, 2022 The silence was unsettling. On a Monday morning usually given to the strangely soothing sounds of hammers crunching nails, […]

January 26, 2022

The Past Swept Away

By David Haldane January 27, 2021 There was something comforting about living across the street from a monument to history. On Tuesday mornings, we’d […]

January 6, 2022

Thanks Very Big

By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2022 The video is hard to watch without getting emotional. In it, dozens of neighbors gather at the Siargao Island […]