April 13, 2023

Fishing

By David Haldane April 13, 2023     It wasn’t my first time. As a child, my father used to take me fishing in gurgling mountain […]
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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.       […]
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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” […]
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December 8, 2022

A Philippine Thanksgiving

By David Haldane Dec. 8, 2022     It was like all the other Thanksgivings I’ve experienced in my life. Except, instead of turkey, a roasted […]
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September 22, 2022

My Salad Life

By David Haldane Sept. 22, 2022     Quinoa Salad. That’s what the menu said. I was surprised and flummoxed because I honestly thought I knew […]
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November 26, 2020

A C0VID Thanksgiving

By David Haldane Nov. 26, 2020   The timing was perfect. Less than a week before Thanksgiving–the quintessential American holiday during which families and friends gather […]
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November 5, 2020

The Donut King

By David Haldane Nov. 5, 2020   I first met him on the balcony of his California mansion. The year was 1988, and Ted Ngoy had […]
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January 10, 2020

A Tooth in My Popsicle (2)

By David Haldane Jan. 9, 2020   We had just started eating desert at our favorite restaurant, when I bit into something hard. “Wow,” I exclaimed […]
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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 […]
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April 13, 2019

My Life As An Ichthyophobic

By David Haldane April 11, 2019 It all started with a fish. I must have been about seven when my mother laid one on my plate […]
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February 18, 2019

Ants, Rats, Lizards and Spiders

By David Haldane Feb. 18, 2019 For the longest time, I thought it was me. I’d be lying in bed, just dropping off the sleep, when […]
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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 […]
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