Jan 15, 2024
I AM AN AUSTRALIAN JEW AND I LOVE MOROCCO
I AM AN AUSTRALIAN JEW AND I LOVE MOROCCO Jews have been present in Morocco for at least 2000 years and lived with the native Amazigh (Berber) people . There…
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Jan 15, 2022
JACQUES BREL ARRIVED IN MY AUSTRALIAN LIFE LONG BEFORE I LEARNED MY FIRST WORDS OF FRENCH
It has been a while. My magical life in Melbourne, Australia was in full swing. I heard this song Ne me quitte pas after listening to it a hundred times…
Aug 15, 2021
TIKKUN OLAM. REPAIRING THE UNIVERSE FROM MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA TO MIAMI FLORIDA AND BEYOND
TIKKUN OLAM MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA TO MIAMI FLORIDA Yesterday a Jewish friend of mine wanted me to talk to a friend of his and guide his friend with some medical advice.…
May 15, 2021
AS THE WORLD BECOME MORE AWARE OF THE PLIGHT OF MARGINALIZED, OPPRESSED PEOPLE, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE PLEA OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE WORLD: NOT ONLY IN THE AMERICAS, AUSTRALIA AND AOTEAROA BUT ALSO ADIVASI/INDIA, ORANG ASLI/MALAYSIA, SAN/SOUTHERN AFRICA
“LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL, JAIR MESSIAS BOLSONARO by Free Journalists • 01/03/2019 Mr. President, We have already been decimated, tutelage and victims…
Jul 15, 2020
Good bye Queen of the skies. She still calls Australia home
Even though I have not returned to Australia after my two trips in 2008, I keep abreast of what is happening in Australia. I am grateful for the enormous influence…
Oct 15, 2019
REMEMBERING AN OCTOBER IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA NOW TRANSPORTED TO IRAN
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE from Silent is the House BY EMILY BRONTË Come, the wind may never again Blow as now it blows for us; And…
Jun 15, 2019
NOW TO BOTATAUNG PAGODA TO PRAY FOR LBGS AUSTRALIA FRANCE CUBA
The next person to pray for at various corners and shrines of Botataung Pagoda was LBGS Nats are pre buddhist spirits which are revered in Burma. BO BO GYI is…
Dec 15, 2016
Siemprecomandante In Australia I Was
#SIEMPRECOMANDANTE In Australia, I was aware of Fidel, Che and the Cuban Revolution. That love and admiration only increased during my stay in London to study Medicine. As luck would…
Oct 15, 2016
EAT TO MAKE YOUR DNA HAPPY: ANOTHER INNOVATION FROM DR GORDON BRUCE WALLACE OF WANTIRNA SOUTH IN MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
COOK FOR YOUR DNA My good friend Gordon with his wife recently visited La Habana, my current home. We had known each other since our days as Junior Doctors at…
Sep 15, 2016
A TOUR GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO HAVANA, CUBA
Gordon and Gaye, two friends from Melbourne wanted to add La Habana to their itinerary of a tour to South America. We had been friends for a long time, having…
Jul 15, 2012
CHILDHOOD OBESITY IN AUSTRALIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It truly saddened my heart to read this news item from The Age in Melbourne, Australia VICTORIAN welfare authorities have begun using…
Jul 15, 2012
languorous lunch of the Australians in Paris
A LANGUOROUS LUNCH OF AUSTRALIANS IN PARIS Good Friends of mine had arrived from Melbourne a couple of days earlier, I arrived from Miami via Bruxelles just yesterday A warm…
Jun 15, 2012
A REMARKABLE AUSTRALIAN .. DR ASHIM SINHA
I am at the Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society which is like a pilgrimage to practising Endocrinologists around the world.. As I entered the hotel where the meeting was…
Nov 15, 2011
Advance Australia Fair.. not for the Pommies it looks like
Increasing number of British Migrants are leaving Australia to go HOME! Something like this would have been unheard of when we were growing up..What has happened? Has Oz gone sour?…
Oct 15, 2009
Hurrah for USA and of course, Hurrah for Australia!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pbt5_portrait-delizabeth-blackburn-biolo_creation Elizabeth Blackburn was raised in Tasmania and educated in Melbourne before going to Cambridge to get her PhD. She has been in the uSA since 1988. And she is…
Sep 15, 2009
Australian Sense of Humour
Those of us who grew up in Australia, and many others who have made this great brown continent their home, an australian sense of humour is essential for an integrated…
Apr 15, 2008
Guanabacoa In Far North Of Australia
Guanabacoa in the Far North of Australia You were here a couple of years ago, I asked the Peruvian lady selling trinkets in the shade of a gorgeous banyan tree…
Apr 15, 2026
A French Lunch: Vive la France
A lunch in France becomes a lesson in nutrition, culture, and the social worlds that shape how people eat.