Mindanao Gold Star Daily – David Haldane

November 23, 2023

One-Sided News

By David Haldane Nov. 23, 2023 I had just put the finishing touches on a three-minute video presentation for an annual gathering of would-be […]

November 16, 2023

Hitler on Lazada

By David Haldane Nov. 16, 2023 It felt like someone had yanked out my kidneys. Unable to sleep, I’d opened my cell phone to Facebook […]

November 9, 2023

Water

By David Haldane Nov. 9, 2023 I was lathered to the gills, about to step under the spigot, when the darned thing choked up. […]

November 2, 2023

Tension

By David Haldane Nov. 2, 2023 The revelation came while I lay leveled on the pavement. Thirty seconds earlier, I’d been speeding home on […]

October 26, 2023

Anxiety

By David Haldane October 26, 2023 I was having dinner with a Filipino friend at a Manila restaurant recently when he pulled out […]

October 20, 2023

Filipino Love

By David Haldane October 19, 2023 She could have been my sister-in-law. Angelyn Aguirre, a 32-year-old native of Pangasinan, had spent the last six […]

October 12, 2023

Survival

By David Haldane October 12, 2023 I had a whole other column prepared for this week, an amusing little piece about Filipinos getting 20% disability […]

October 5, 2023

Tik Toking Truants

By David Haldane Oct. 5, 2023 They’re a common sight online. Tik Tokers gone tall. Teenagers courting turmoil. Bad ones boosting boundaries. A new study […]

September 28, 2023

Fear of Nuns

By David Haldane Sept. 28, 2023 I have always been afraid of nuns. As a child, I used to see them in black habits with […]

September 21, 2023

Traversing China. Again.

By David Haldane Sept. 21, 2023 The first red flag got hoisted at Manila Airport. Eager to check in early for my Air China flight […]

September 14, 2023

A Fungus Among Us

By David Haldane September 14, 2023 The experience impacted my life profoundly. It was 1969, and I was a 20-year-old student at a hippie […]

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 […]