August 19, 2024

Civil War in America?

By David Haldane Aug. 19, 2024     The most unsettling thing is the familiarity. It begins with police fighting an unruly gang of protestors on […]
August 12, 2024

Dangerous Old Dads

  By David Haldane Aug. 12, 2024     I’ve got a confession. My youngest child wasn’t born until I was 71. Now she’s a beautiful […]
August 5, 2024

Diving in the Philippines, One of the World’s Top Spots

By David Haldane Aug. 5, 2024   I used to live underwater. Well, ok, maybe that’s an exaggeration; let’s just say I used to spend my […]
July 28, 2024

Jury Duty

By David Haldane July 29, 2024     The notice came as it always does these days; in a faded photo emailed to me by my […]
July 21, 2024

Mail-Order Brides

By David Haldane June 22, 2024   The tropes were familiar in the early days of our marriage. People said we had hooked up so Ivy […]
July 15, 2024

Susnscreen or Cancer?

By David Haldane July 15, 2024     It was supposed to be an ordinary day in the sun. My wife and I were vacationing with […]
July 7, 2024

Speaking English in the Philippines

By David Haldane July 8, 2024   It’s both a blessing and a curse. A double-edged-sword, as they say, a blade that cuts both ways. What […]
June 24, 2024

Voices from Nowhere

By David Haldane June 24, 2024     It was just a voice on the phone. And yet it not only made my day, but my […]
June 17, 2024

On God’s Orders: The Eruption of Mount Pinatubo

  By David Haldane June 17, 2024     It was almost Biblical. First came the earthquake, one of the most powerful the Philippines had ever […]
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 […]
June 3, 2024

Philippine Divorce: To Be or Not to Be?

By David Haldane June 3, 2024     It’s no fun. As I’ve previously written, it feels like you’re falling down a dark hole. You don’t […]
May 27, 2024

Satan Versus the Jews?

  By David Haldane May 27, 2024     I’ve never been a Greta Thunberg fan. Back in 2019, when the then-teenage Swedish activist achieved overnight […]