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 New Malaysia and its post-Covid spirit of open-mindedness and friendliness are truly remarkable. Since 2008, I've had the privilege of visiting Malaysia regularly and have always felt a deep…
A Lovely Day in Malaysia Malaysia, a country teeming with diversity, culture, and heartwarming hospitality, never ceases to amaze its visitors. There's always something enchanting about drifting through its bustling…
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…
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…
There is a poem by that eminent latin american poet who belongs to all PABLO NERUDA How much happens in a day and I will tell you what happened to…
“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…
Google Doodle celebrates surgical face mask inventor Dr. Wu Lien-teh's 142nd birthday Unfortunately, the good doctor's country of brith a century later did not do well with the Pandemic. At…
IDENTITIES WITHOUT BORDERS Borders is what we create so that we can cocoon inside it and then feel comfortable in them with our fellow travelers. Currently I am reading a…
photos taken from the backyard of my sister's house in Miami. The sun sets later at this time of this year in Miami, around 8 15 pm and it is…
As usual I was flying out of Kuala Lumpur International Airport 1 (2 is where Air Asia flies out of). I try to arrive a little early, the check in,…
As a traveller I am looking for different experiences in countries that i visit and also looking for technology APPS to make it easier. Malaysia is a country close to…
I left Siem Reap with a heavy heart after having had a wonderful end of the year sojourn there. The minute the flight landed in Kuala Lumpur my mood changed…
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I received this newspaper clip from Malaysia this morning. A legislator was in fact praising the Obesity epidemic in the country saying it shows that the country is prosperous compared…
The Muslim and Arab countries of this world turned 900 000 Jews who had lived there long before Islam became the adopted religion of those countries, into refugees. Many of…
CLEANSING OF YOUR MIND IN MALACCA I had a delightful time in KL, a quiet one and with the staff at Hilton Double Tree spoiling me, and with a Facial…
I chose the right place to come, to get away from the conflicts and confusions in Brussels and Miami. Here I can be myself, don't have to put up any…
A WONDERFUL WELCOME TO MALAYSIA I had left Miami early in the morning and with connections arrived at the Singapore International (actually Singapore cannot have domestic flights since it is…
