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.
Along the vast arteries of the Amazon River, Indigenous societies have raised infants for millennia without what the modern world considers indispensable: diapers. This is not an absence born of…
A reflection on international childhood, independence, and the early-acquired cultural capital that shapes how children move through the world.
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly by Yehuda Kovesh MD (London), FRAI (London) A Frenchman’s Remark A French academician once observed: “English is a language that is…
A meditation on Istanbul, memory, wandering, and the strange freedom of exile without nostalgia for return.
A political and anthropological reflection shaped by Suriname, migration, medicine, and the pull of difficult places.
A multilingual reflection on Iran, hospitality, exile, and the ache of belonging from afar.
A morning walk in Cochin becomes a field note on sea air, faith, health, and everyday public life.
A reflection on Fort Cochin, interdenominational life, and the quiet coexistence of many faiths.
A Miami food memory that connects Cuban exile, restaurants, nostalgia, and the soul of Havana.
Miami, Memoria y la Migración del Pensamiento Autoritario. First in Spanish and then in English Soy australiano, pero mi vínculo con Miami, Florida, comenzó durante mis estudios de medicina y…
A personal reflection on travel as a life priority, offered as one person’s path rather than advice for everyone.
A historical note on the origins of the word assassin, moving through Bernard Lewis, Amin Maalouf, and medieval memory.
A reflection on purpose, Indigenous health, and the kind of work that protects against burnout.
A coastal field note tracing mangroves, memory, Pine Island, Cuba, and the quiet routes between places.
A reflection on the American nutrition crisis as a problem of culture, education, inequality, and systems.
A literary reflection on Omar Khayyam, skepticism, poetry, and the shadow of conflict between Israel and Iran.
A note on Persian lines, longing, saudade, and the feeling of loss before possession.
A return to Jamaica through memory, language, friendship, and the lingering feeling of a place once lived.
