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David Haldane
David Haldane, a former Los Angeles Times staff writer, is an award-winning American journalist, author and broadcaster. He has homes in Joshua Tree, California, and Surigao City, Philippines, where he lives with his Filipino wife and their two children.
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Fear of nuns
I have always been afraid of nuns.As a child, I used to see them in black habits with crunched faces that prompted my cringing...
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Traversing China. Again.
THE first red flag got hoisted at Manila Airport. Eager to check in early for my Air China flight to Los Angeles via Beijing,...
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A fungus among US
THE experience impacted my life profoundly.It was 1969, and I was a 20-year-old student at a hippie college in the hills of Vermont. One...
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Reverse diaspora
THE videos made my stomach churn.They depicted water literally gushing down the streets, almost overturning cars. “Oh no,” I thought, thinking of 2021’s Typhoon...
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The perfect girlfriend
IT was a fantasy come true.“Oh David,” the sexy young woman texted me, “you’re so cute and handsome! I’m here for whatever you want;...
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Barbie brouhaha
I WENT to see Barbie because it almost got banned in the Philippines.The problem, it turns out, was the fleeting image of a line...
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Kids in space
THE phone call startled me.“David,” my wife said from the medical lab 142 miles away where she works the night shift, “Grandpa’s worried about...
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