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Apart from getting used to, Where are you from? Originally?, style of questioning, I am confronted with yet another common question, Are your people naturally smart? No, I say emphatically,…
I know this airport so well.. and i could not believe what I saw today. all concourses were empty, no agents nor any identification of any airlines, hardly any human…
Natalie d'Arbeloff Born in Paris, raised in Europe, Paraguay, Brazil and the USA, Natalie d’Arbeloff speaks those languages and lives in London. Her father was Russian and her mother French.…
WHO IS DYING FROM COVID 19 WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU IN ? CUBA OR INDONESIA , VIETNAM OR BANGLADESH IN THE USA, WHAT IS YOUR INCOME? WHAT IS YOUR COLOUR?…
It usually begins with a man and occasionally a woman, well dressed and well kempt, wearing surgical scrubs or a white coat with something like. DR…. embroidered on to it.…
BRASIL has always been in my mind’s horizon. I have been lucky to see a small part of this immensely diverse country, from the Argentina border at Foz do Iguassu…
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF DR. FAIRCHILD I had read two about and by him and had visited many of the places he had been and thought of the time he…
The Sun has set in Miami, the three stars have appeared, bursting through the still blue skies. Today is a special welcome to the Shabbat I prepare to light the…
For me, today is the day, the social isolation in Miami which I had gleefully accepted, stopped. Lovely day to walk around the Botanic Gardens which had been part of…
I was looking through some of my blogs about the multiple journies on Qatar Airways, my favourite airline. I was feeling nostalgic for the lack of QR in my life…
NEJM or New England Journal of Medicine or when in context of a medical conversation truncated to New England, is the leading medical publishing house in the USA. We are…
It is raining in Miami. Nothing unusual at this time of the year. Moments like this From unknown places A song would drift in I know I am in for…