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 […]
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 31, 2023

Renewal

By David Haldane Aug. 31, 2023   We’d been stalled in traffic for more than three hours when we finally called it quits. “Hey,” I gingerly […]
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 […]
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.       […]
July 7, 2022

Slaughtered Plans

By David Haldane July 7, 2022   I’m working in my pajamas today. I had expected to spend the week touring castles in the United Kingdom […]
July 29, 2021

Stuck Behind Walls

By David Haldane July 29, 2021     It could be worse, of course. I could be without Internet, TV and a view of the construction […]
January 29, 2019

Home

By David Haldane Aug. 2, 2018   The thing that finally got to me was the abundance of tears. Some belonged to friends plainly sad to […]
August 30, 2018

Window

By David Haldane Aug. 30, 2018 The house is far from finished. There are loose wires everywhere, piles of wet cement, floors that need tiling and […]
July 26, 2018

A Kind of Death

By David Haldane July 26, 2018 It feels like a kind of death. Everywhere I go, I wonder whether it’s the last time I’ll ever be […]