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enjoying the organized chaos that is so metaphoric of life, each night i wandered through the souks, giving a salaam here and a shalom there, in this ancient city. I…
After writing the title, I realized that I had used the word OTHER to describe the 99.8% of the world's population who are not JEWISH. Usually we are the perpetual…
I very seldom visit a Shopping Mall, unless I have something specific to buy there. Shopping Mall life has become part of the modern "village" offering a space for people…
After saying Good bye to the pleasant manager of the Tower House Hotel in Fort Cochin, it was time to go to Ernakulum. Mr Rajesh Rajan, manager of the Travancore…
It was our turn to drop in on the neighbours. A short ride to a nearby village of Kerniscob (village of the Bishop in Breton), it was a happy moment…
I am staying with a French couple at the seaside small town of Quiberon in Brittany. They are bretons. They invited another breton couple they had known for a long…
FRENCH PARADOX EXPLAINED: IN ACTION IN NANTES, FRANCE AT RESTAURANT LA LOCA For people who are QUANTITATIVELY minded, they compare numbers to numbers and never about what makes the numbers…
I had a ticket on British Airways to London and then on Iberia to Madrid and Marrakech. I was looking forward to returning to Riad 58 Blue and my new…
The Sun was setting in Miami. I had been back just over 24 hours ago. Yesterday I left that city of Light and Love. No city in North America comes…
This has been an unexpected trip and not well prepared trip at all. But every day, unexpected pleasures have come my way. On arriving at the Madrid Airport, after a…
San Lazaro is a Spirit from the pantheon of Cuban Syncretic Space, he is a Healer, a good Spirit to have on your side during these isolated days of suffering.…
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…