January 13, 2025

Getting Guns

  By David Haldane January 13, 2025     He’s among the gentlest people I know. A hardworking medical professional, Jonathan obeys the law, loves his […]
January 6, 2025

Filipino Cardinal Leaps Aboard a Sinking Ship

  By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2025     I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a […]
October 27, 2024

Sleeping With the Lights On

By David Haldane Oct. 28, 2024   I first noticed it years ago when my Filipino wife’s family moved into our house. Rising in the middle […]
October 21, 2024

Christopher Columbus: A Troubled Legacy

By David Haldane Oct. 21, 2024     It all seemed so simple as a child. Growing up in Southern California of the 1950s, we eagerly […]
October 14, 2024

Identity Politics: Racist to its Core!

By David Haldane Oct. 14, 2024     The headline was simple and engaging. “Filipino Americans should vote for Kamala Harris in November,” it read, topping […]
September 30, 2024

Cosmic Comedy

By David Haldane Sept. 30, 2024     I had just finished breakfast when the phone rang. It was my wife, crying like I’d never heard […]
September 16, 2024

Disempowering Parents

By David Haldane   Sept. 16, 2024   Maybe I’d have felt differently before becoming a parent. As a kid myself, perhaps I would have welcomed […]
September 9, 2024

Zone of Interest

By David Haldane Sept. 9, 2024     I hated the speech. Accepting an Oscar for his movie, “The Zone of Interest,” earlier this year, English […]
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 […]
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 1, 2024

The Sea Gypsies Come Ashore

By David Haldane July 1, 2024   The joke made me cringe. “Are you a goodjau or a Badjau?” my companion asked the pretty young girl […]
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 […]