Uncategorized – David Haldane

February 17, 2023

American Expat Launches Book on Finding Island Home

Ortigas Foundation Library. LITERARY TREATS 2023: A TOOTH IN MY POPSICLE BY DAVID HALDANE BOOK LAUNCH MARCH 7 What started as a […]

February 17, 2023

Lost Boys

By David Haldane Feb. 16, 2023 I won’t say his name. I met him at an expat gathering outside Surigao City. It was Christmastime […]

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” […]

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 […]

October 27, 2022

Aching Testicles

By David Haldane October 27, 2022 It was 3 a.m. and my patience was thinning. I had come to St. Paul Surigao University Hospital […]

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 […]

September 8, 2022

Boxer Shorts

By David Haldane September 8, 2022 I meant it as a joke. Back in 2019, I wrote a column called “Pajamas” aimed at a […]

July 21, 2022

Reconnecting

By David Haldane July 21, 2022 It started as a tiny niggle. That’s the first sentence of a column I wrote back in 2018, shortly […]

June 30, 2022

This is Insane

By David Haldane June 30, 2022 We’ve all heard the stories. A young man with a smiling disposition goes into his room one day […]

June 16, 2022

Activism’s Heavy Toll

By David Haldane June 16, 2022 It was everywhere. With few exceptions, every TV news channel in America livestreamed last week’s Congressional hearings in […]

June 9, 2022

Thinking About Death

By David Haldane June 9, 2022 For a moment, I felt like a time traveler. Watching the first episode of a new HBO series […]

June 2, 2022

Bombing the Dictionary

By David Haldane June 2, 2022 It enrages me every time. I’ll be working on a column—regarding, say, a construction project—and type the word […]