Moving to the Philippines

September 8, 2025

Racist America?

By David Haldane September 8, 2025 The question stunned me into silence. “Have you ever been asked where you’re from?” my dinner mate […]

August 11, 2025

Robbing the Cradle

By David Haldane August 11, 2025 The findings didn’t surprise me. A study published in Psychology Today examines the question of which partner is […]

February 17, 2025

Double-Edged Sword: Siargao’s Foreign Invasion

By David Haldane Feb. 17, 2025 I’ve never paid much attention to celebrities. In a world full of monumental problems, I believe, what celebrities […]

December 9, 2024

Coming Home

By David Haldane Dec. 9, 2024 The welcome was underwhelming. Walking into the tiny terminal of Surigao Airport, I imagined a chorus of greetings […]

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 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 […]

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 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 […]

May 4, 2023

Digital Nomads in the Philippines: A New Mode(m) of Living

By David Haldane May 4, 2023 The meeting was long overdue. As my publicist and I waited at the Pancake House in Cagayan de […]