David Haldane

HOT!

The cavalry

The green lane

Sitting in the dark

Broken glass

Singing from the balconies

That’s how long I spent on Facebook Messenger the other day, chatting affectionately with a long-lost friend in California. We hadn’t done that in ages. The reason we can do it now is because both of us are immobilized at home, hiding out from a virus that could kill us and millions of others.

ALIENS

It reminds me of every science fiction movie I’ve ever seen about invaders from outer space.

Gone but not forgotten

The first instance involved a lovely married couple we hired to, respectively, drive our son to school and clean our house. The deal: we would provide room and board plus a salary deemed adequate with, of course, weekends off.

Blessing

MY only moment of uncertainty came when the priest sprinkled holy water onto our door.

Sanders: A new kind of candidate?

I CAN’T swear it was the first time he ever saw himself on TV, but it certainly seemed that way.

Left turns

IT was the kind of announcement you don’t want to hear from a pilot. Especially one controlling the airplane on which you’re a passenger.

Reveille

Where I live, mornings are like hell on earth filled with the damnable interruptions of people, including my own nine-year-old son,