Travel – David Haldane

April 5, 2026

Filipinos in the Desert: Rising Together in Filipino Town

By David Haldane April 5, 2026 Not a place but a movement. That’s how one of its founders described what appears to be […]

March 16, 2026

An Alien in My Own Hometown

By David Haldane March 16, 2026 It began as a misunderstanding. “Sweet N’ Low?” the woman in the coffee shop wanted to know. All […]

September 14, 2025

Wailing at the Western Wall

By David Haldane Sept. 14, 2025 It hit me like a stone. One minute I was standing awkwardly at Jerusalem’s historic Western Wall wondering what […]

July 28, 2025

A Visitor in My Own House

By David Haldane July 28, 2025 I don’t blame anyone. Honestly, I always knew it would eventually come to this. My wife’s Filipino family […]

June 15, 2025

Greta Thunberg: Entertaining the World

By David Haldane June 16, 2025 I promised myself not to write about her again. Greta Thunberg, the child activist famous for her attention-grabbing antics, […]

June 7, 2025

Rhiza Romero Chick: The Filipino Diva Bringing Joy to Californians

By David Haldane June 8, 2025 It was as if a strange new vibration had entered the room. It swept across the floor and penetrated […]

June 1, 2025

Camping Out in Trump’s America

By David Haldane June 2, 2025 The tension began at the airport. We had watched recent events unfolding in America from our veranda overlooking the […]

May 25, 2025