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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
The Sun was setting in Miami. I had been back just over 24 hours ago. Yesterday I left that city of Light and Love. No city in North America comes…
If you were growing up in Melbourne, among friends whose parents or grandparents had emigrated to avoid persecution in face of Nazi tyranny, there are many countries, duchies, towns that…
I have worked with Indigenous people in many parts of the world but Indians of North America are especially closer to my heart. I have gotten to know them better,…
If you are listening to the music from just one country or one continent, you can be lulled into thinking you are listening to the best of the music there…
I have just returned to Miami after a 10 day trip to Europe in which I discovered a lovely part of Austria and also ventured into the mountainous parts of…
0 0 1 319 1821 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 15 4 2136 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE 2018 has been a good year for…
KEY WORDS EUROPEAN WOMEN WITH ESTABLISHED OSTEOPOROSIS MEDITERRANEAN DIET CAN BE A MODIFIED ONE FOR YOUR COUNTRY. THIS DIET IS A SORT OF NEUTRAL DIET FOR ANY ONE TO FOLLOW…
31 May 2017 The last day of the month of May, a month of excesses. 15 flights all in First Class or Business Class North America, Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the…
Those of us who are English speakers may take comfort in the fact that there is hardly any place on earth that we will not be understood! The formation of…
What does it mean, Genetic Memory? We inherit genes from our parents, then learn our culture, our languages. Later on we go on to live in countries which are not…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE EUROPEAN/AMERICAN/AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO ASIA SEEN AS BEGGARS Last year an astonishing one billion (nearly one out six humans on this planet) took…
Walking along this pleasant city, I was amazed at the similarities (at least superficially) that meets a visitor to the central part of the city. Retired moslem women from Maghreb,…
10 am at Heathrow terminal 4 11 am at Paris CDG 1700 in KL Singapour 5 am in La Habana, Miami The flight from Paris to London was delayed because…
It is often like this One day you are brimmed with hope and desires And then the next, you realize, how alone in the world you could be, especially you…
A lunch in France becomes a lesson in nutrition, culture, and the social worlds that shape how people eat.
A travel note from Cochin to Miami, moving through cancellations, airports, and the calm of a familiar route home.
A year-end travel reflection on movement, memory, and the places that shaped the year.
A reflection on international childhood, independence, and the early-acquired cultural capital that shapes how children move through the world.
