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 […]
December 23, 2024

The Pope’s Anti-Semitism

 By David Haldane Dec. 23, 2024     The image was surreal. There, in the run-up to Christmas, a baby Jesus reclined on the floor of […]
May 6, 2024

Cruelly Tortured Cats

By David Haldane May 6, 2024     It looks like I’ve finally hit a nerve. By which I mean, written something brazenly offensive enough to […]
April 15, 2024

Toilet Paper

By David Haldane April 15, 2024     Finally! The national government is urging Filipinos to conserve water. Why?  Because of a “rapidly dwindling water supply […]
October 5, 2023

Tik Toking Truants

By David Haldane Oct. 5, 2023   They’re a common sight online. Tik Tokers gone tall. Teenagers courting turmoil. Bad ones boosting boundaries. A new study […]
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.       […]
January 5, 2023

Ubiquitous Ube

By David Haldane January 5, 2023   I have always had a tenuous relationship with Filipino food. A 2019 column entitled “My Life as an Ichthyophobic” […]
September 8, 2022

Boxer Shorts

By David Haldane September 8, 2022     I meant it as a joke. Back in 2019, I wrote a column called “Pajamas” aimed at a […]
May 14, 2020

Diapers

By David Haldane May 14, 2020   Want to receive “Expat Eye” weekly in your mailbox? Sign up here.   I haven’t changed a diaper in […]
February 20, 2020

Left Turns

By David Haldane Feb. 20, 2020   It was the kind of announcement you don’t want to hear from a pilot. Especially one controlling the airplane […]
December 26, 2019

Pajamas

By David Haldane Dec. 26, 2019   The situation was urgent. Two young women recommended to us as potential housekeepers had arrived to be interviewed for […]
December 20, 2019

Cruelly Tortured Pigs

By David Haldane Dec. 19, 2019   I’ll never forget the first time I heard it. Ivy and I had just met, and she’d taken me […]