Aug 15, 2025
The First Cuban Restaurant in Miami, with the Soul of 1960s Havana
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
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.
Jun 15, 2025
Mangroves and Memory: Hidden Currents Between Pine Island and Cuba
A coastal field note tracing mangroves, memory, Pine Island, Cuba, and the quiet routes between places.
Aug 15, 2024
Goodbye Cuba and the Memories
A multilingual farewell to Cuba, friendship, memory, and the emotional tattoo left by Havana.
Jul 15, 2024
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO COMPASSION IN THIS WORLD WHETHER USA OR IRAN OR CUBA OR SUDAN OR YEMEN OR BANGLADESH ETC
This land used to be the city and dwelling place of compassionate companions. When did compassion come to its end? What has happened to all the rulers of the land?…
Jul 15, 2024
AN INTERACTION IN MIAMI.. CUBANS IN THE ISLAND OF CUBA ARE WELL AWARE OF HEALTH AND PHYSIOLOGY
I had gone to pick up my luggage at the Rimowa Store in Miami Design District. The attendant at the Valet parking station was a Cuban, who had arrived in…
Feb 15, 2024
A LAMENT FOR MY DEAR ISLAND CUBA
This morning, I received an article from Mexico City that was published in the Spanish newspaper El Pais on February 18, 2024. As I read it, tears welled up in…
Nov 15, 2023
IRAN BURMA CUBA. AND I LOVE THEM
I PROBABLY LOVE THESE THREE FAVOURITE COUNTRIES FOR SIMILAR REASON THEIR CITIZENS LACK FREEDOM I have lived in Cuba, have visited Burma/Birmanie/Birmania/Myanmar numerous times (I have even been given a…
Jun 15, 2023
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM THIS STRIKING SILENCE OF THE HOUSE. CUBA IRAN ISRAEL INDIA CAYMAN ISLANDS JAMAICA MOROCCO FRANCE BELGIUM ARGENTINA MEXICO
TONIGHT as the time to light the shabbat candles, i was overcome by strong emotions. My UmonHon brother Charlie, of the Buffalo Clan, left us on his final journey to…
Feb 15, 2023
A MOST PLEASANT 14 FEBRUARY. DIA DE LA AMISTAD AS WE SAY IN CUBA. A DAY OF FRIENDSHIP
Today has turned out to be a very pleasant day.. I do not pay much attention to the Valentine's Day hype in the West but in Cuba this day is…
Jan 15, 2023
WHERE IS MY CUBAPASION ? WHERE IS THE GHOST OF THIS MOVEABLE CITY
Cities evoke a nostalgia in me . My own home city of Melbourne always reminded me of the fragrance of the flowers that i use to sense as I walked…
Sep 15, 2022
MI POBRE CUBA.. A VISIT BY HURRICANE IAN .. NO ERES BIENVENIDO, SR. IAN
In CUBA we try to be hospitable to visitors but this one, from the Sahara, Cabo Verde Islands and the Atlantic, a certain Sr. IAN was not welcome. The entire…
Sep 15, 2022
OH HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO BE IN HAVANA CUBA OCTOBER 2022
For Hemingway the Moveable Feast was Paris and for me it is Havana. What makes Havana and for that matter all of Cuba make so special? Its people not only…
Sep 15, 2022
IN CUBA, PEOPLE STILL HOLD HANDS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR AGES .. IT IS NOT JUST FOR ADOLESCENTS
Yesterday I was enjoying my sunset walk along the Malecon, the seawall which is just few metres away from the flat where I stay in Havana. There were many people…
Aug 15, 2022
FROM CARHAIX TO CUBA : CASUALIDAD NO SON TAN CASUAL
Many years ago I remember seeing an CD with a lovely name : and enjoyed the music, Cubans and African musicians singing classic Cuban songs.. Today walking along the side…
Aug 15, 2022
CUBA AND MALAYSIA AND NOW IRAN SO MUCH OF MY HEART IS TETHERED TO THESE COUNTRIES ..
The morning was still young, a text message arrives from Kuala Lumpur, do you have time to talk? it said It was KO, the former Malaysian ambassador to Cuba. We…
May 15, 2022
INFINITE LOVE FOR CUBA, SENSATION OF GRATITUDE AND AS ALWAYS NOSTALGIA .. IN MIAMI A SENSE OF BEING PART OF MY DESIRES FOR CUBA
vouloir Au sein du coeur Sans honte, sans raison Avec le feu de la passion vouloir Sans regarder en arrière A travers les yeux Toujours et encore plus amour pour…
Feb 15, 2022
A FRANGRANT ROSE AND ITS SPINE: LITTLE PRINCE AND HIS ROSE. A METAPHOR FOR MY LOVE FOR CUBA
I found this in the Net, and I will quote it fully including the quotes by Antoine Saint Exupery the author of The Little Prince. The Little Prince and The…
Feb 15, 2022
AN INTERIM REPORT ON COVID TESTING IN SOME COUNTRIES so far nothing can hold a candle to LA PRADERA INTERNATIONAL CLINIC IN HAVANA CUBA .
After 18 months of corporal punishment in Miami during Covid 19 isolation (gaining 4 kg in weight and a bloated belly and intellectual decay), I decided to travel despite restrictions.…