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.
CELL IS a wonderful medical journal which over the years has given me pleasure with absolutely new knowledge. Researchers around the world are working on so many miracles, so when…
On my last visit to Fort Cochin, I had met a mother (specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology) and a daughter (who would begin her medical studies this autumn). In the…
I was eager to light the candles tonight, as the sun sunk over a gorgeous horizon lit by the candle that is the Sun being passed over to the other…
I have visited the teeming city of Madras (now called Chennai) on many occasions and had the pleasure of living in Kingston, Jamaica for a short while. While searching for…
CUERNAVACA, MEXICO is so full of longings. No puedo vivir sin amor, laments the alcoholic ex-British consul played by that great actor Albert Finney in Malcolm Lowery's book Under the…
I am not a fan of watching sports on TV but I like to be abreast of what is happening, especially from an anthropological point of view. When we were…
I am at a farm just a few miles out of Miami. It is absolutely quiet here, no traffic , no noise, surrounded by parcels of fields cultivating mainly decorative…
I have had two days of absolute tranquility, calm and mental balance. No one else is in this house, I have my coffee at the patio looking at the green…
Why do people Migrate? is it for themselves or for the country that are migrating to ? Is it a fair question to ask a Syrian fleeing Alep, to go…
Nothing makes me happier than to hear that a woman has been chosen to lead a country. I do not question their political affiliation, one can be sure that we…
HOW PRECIOUS THINGS ARE DAMAGED BY MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS Words are the greatest source of misunderstanding. And especially when one is reading in another language. I have never added a moral…
AMERICA OR USA is a land of immigrants and more so as each year goes by. When you are in a city like Miami you realize that your chance of…
I am curious about printed matter, but it is not often that I read ELLE or COSMOPOLITAN.. In the living room at my sisters house I saw this magazine and…
Al Jazeera, the news channel based in Doha is unique among the news channels in the world( with the exception of the venerable BBC, that many of us grew up…
MIGRATION THROUGH LIFE A threat to the Planet as well as at an individual level is/has been present over the past three months. We have become open to the sufferings…
THE CULTURE OF FEAR DURING THE TIME OF CORONA Following the pandemic situation around the world, it Is becoming obvious that one of the more misinformed countries is the United…
Magic days amidst rain and thunder in Miami They had announced it earlier, a storm is forming out on the horizon and one could feel more than normal rain and…
I have chosen to love three different countries other than my own: USA , Israel and Cuba. This is the story about the three of them. While hard hit countries…
