Aug 15, 2024
It Took Me a While to Fall in Love with Paris
A multilingual reflection on Paris, delayed affection, and the gradual education of attention.
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, 2023
COINCIDENCES ARE NOT COINCIDENCES .. WE ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THEM
A voyage of too many coincidences Coincidences do not exist, it shows our inability to understand it A short visit to Buenos Aires Miami to Panama to Montevideo, the awful…
Nov 15, 2021
MY MOROCCAN JEWISH CONNECTION: NOW WE ARE ALL JEWS
When I arrived in MIami to do postgraduate work in Endocrinology, one of my colleagues at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital was a Panamanian Jew by the name of…
Oct 15, 2021
DIA DE LOS MEDICOS. THE DAY OF THE DOCTORS. TODAY 23 OCTOBER IN MEXICO
Nice to wake up to a warm message from Mexico. My dear friend and colleague, Dra. Estela had written: Mil felicidades, que te sigas iluminando con tu gran inteligencia, te…
Sep 15, 2021
GENUINE SENSATION OF WELL BEING AND HOPE FOR A BETTER YEAR AHEAD
I broke the fast yesterday night with my good friends at their home. In my heart, i had been feeling that this year 5782 has begun well and that it…
Sep 15, 2021
JEWISH NEW YEAR 5782 WITH ALL LOVED ONES IN THE HEART .. FROM MIAMI WITH LOVE
The Jewish New Year has already begun for me. Second year in a row, that there would be no communal get together. So be with the people who mean friendship…
May 15, 2021
WHO WAS ISAAC THE JEW OF CALICUT AND COCHIN OF LATE 18TH CENTURY ?
While looking for evidence of some jewish connection to Tipu Sultan of Mysore, I came across the name of Isaac the Jew. His name appears in multiple documents, in Dutch…
Apr 15, 2021
CUBAN SOLIDARITY, NORTH AMERICAN FRAGILITY AND JALALUDDIN RUMI ..
While at the beginning of the Pandemic in 2020 and the various types of isolation that were to follow, many people, including me, welcomed the isolation and lack of intrusion…
Dec 15, 2020
MOROCCO-ISRAELI FRIENDSHIP IS CENTURIES OLD.. A NICE HANUKKAH GIFT OF INCREASED MUTUAL COOPERATION
Jews must have lived in Morocco ever since 70 CE but the definite change came after they were expelled from Spain 1492. Even before the expulsion, there was migration of…
Nov 15, 2020
NOVEMBER 2, 2020 DIA DE LOS MUERTOS. TOUSSAINT EN FRANCE. REMEMBERING DEAR DEPARTED ONES IN CUBA BRASIL
From the BBC: Three ideas for how to live a fuller life By Roman Krznaric 28th October 2020 By reimagining our relationship with time – and coming to terms with…
Oct 15, 2020
PSYCHOLOGICAL PANDEMIC IN THE TIME OF CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC
DUNBAR NUMBER IN THE TIMES OF COVID This morning BBC Future had an article, How solitude and isolation can affect your social skills. Humans are deeply social creatures, so what…
Oct 15, 2020
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST ANTHROPOLOGIST IN THE DAYS OF SOCIAL ISOLATION 2020
Lately days are passing by as if covered in a veil of magic. I have seen so many happy people , and my own little island beckons me seductively. Reality…
Sep 15, 2020
BEAUTY OF MIAMI IS NOT THE GLITTER AND GLAMOUR AND THE LATIN BLING.. BUT WHAT NATURE CAN PROVIDE .. HAVE TO LOOK FOR IT
I realized this sojourn in Miami compels to appreciate the beauty of Miami a friend of mine, whom I call the Optimistic Optometrist or I and I, sent me photos…
Sep 15, 2020
MAY THE COMING YEAR 5781 BE ESPECIAL FOR ALL OF US : ISRAEL ARAB COUNTRIES IRAN . INDIA AND CHINA AND ESPECIALLY THE USA AND BRASIL . as always mi ISLA RICA. CUBA
In just a few hours, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins. I have been feeling good thinking about my mischpochah: family scattered around the world, including USA Israel…
Jul 15, 2020
THE NEGLECTED GLOBAL PANDEMIC: UNCONTROLLED,GALLOPING OBESITY ALL OVER THE WORLD
EMORY University School of Medicine is providing an educational session in SPANISH for the multitudes of Health Care Providers in Latin America about OBESITY. I listened to it today as…
Apr 15, 2020
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
ARE THE MEXICAN AMERICANS BEING SAVED BY THEIR INDIAN BLOOD ADMIXTURE ? IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 I have had the pleasure of visiting Indigenous groups in most of the…
Apr 15, 2020
THRIFTY GENE, DR.MARCELA LeBEAU AND SNP ON ABCA1 GENE: A CENTURY OF AMERICAN INDIANS AND DIABETES
Thrifty Gene, Dr. Marcela LeBeau and SNP on ABCA1 gene. A century of American Indians and Diabetes When I first read about J.V.Neel’s Thrifty gene theory, I was immediately attracted…
Mar 15, 2020
PERSONS OF COLOUR OR PERSONS PORTRAYING HUMANITY. NOT THE SAME, ARE THEY ?
Person of Colour I do not understand Who is a person of Colour? A term very popular in the USA Arabs are considered White Persians are considered White Majority of…