Dec 15, 2015
AN UMONHON NOZHITHI’A EN OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON
Little Mr D whom I met for the first time, is the son of Mitexi, my niece in the UmonHon Tradition. Olympia, the capital of the State of Washington is…
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.
Dec 15, 2015
MY SISTER FRIEND FROM GRAYLAND, WASHINGTON
For a person who was not fortunate enough to spend a lot of time with those related by blood to me, I have been extraordinarily grateful for the many members…
Jul 15, 2015
ROMANCE IN THE TIME OF THE MONSOON
Romance in the time of the Monsoon How can I not think of Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, when I am wandering around this lovely small town of Fort Cochin? I…
Jun 15, 2015
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY I just had a wonderful trip on Etihad Airways, very content, despite it being 15 hours in length. It was good to observe…
Apr 15, 2015
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST LOOKS AT A MEDICAL ARTICLE GESTATIONAL DIABETES AND AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
• The authors of this large retrospective longitudinal cohort study assessed the risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) associated with intrauterine exposure to type 2 diabetes and gestational diabetes mellitus.…
Mar 15, 2015
Visiting With Purpose Or Just Passing
VISITING WITH A PURPOSE OR JUST PASSING THROUGH I can recognize two types of Tourists: one group that is passing through, they didn’t come here because they have any special…
Oct 15, 2014
BLONDE HAIRED GYPSY AND OTHER AMERICAN INDIAN TALES
BLONDE HAIRED GYPSY AND OTHER AMERICAN INDIAN TALES When I showed a photo of a Breton family get together, taken in a village in Brittany in France, to an American…
Aug 15, 2014
SAUDADE, LE MAL DU PAYS, ANORANSA, LONGING: A FULL LIFE OF SENSITIVITY AND JOY
SAUDADE, LE MAL DU PAYS, ANORANSA, LONGING For MM et LBGS Le Mal du Pays Diamond Head menhirs in quiberon sacred hill for the lakota wickiup in sierra madre oriental…
Aug 15, 2014
AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE, DANIEL KAHNEMAN
AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE, DANIEL KAHNEMAN When I began working with the Indians, it looked like they were intent on educating this “tribal” boy into the ways…
Jul 15, 2014
ENGLISH THE LINGUA FRANCA OF EUROPE AND ALREADY THE WORLD
Those of us who are English speakers may take comfort in the fact that there is hardly any place on earth that we will not be understood! The formation of…
Jul 15, 2014
A NEW DAWN FOR INDONESIA : WELCOME PRESIDENT J0KOWI
WELCOME PRESIDENT JOKOWI OF INDONESIA I am sure there are thousands of politicians and businessmen in Indoneisa, shivering in their boots at this welcome news of a simple son of…
Jun 15, 2014
LIFE IS FULL OF UNEXPECTED PLEASURES
FRIENDS, FOOD AND FAR EAST 4TH TIME IN 2014 Miami-Newark-Hong Kong-Singapore-Kuala Lumpur-Siem Reap-Kuala Lumpur-Bangkok-Amman-Tel Aviv-Istanbul-Brussels Trip 3 Miami-New York-Hong Kong-Kuala Lumpur-Yangon-Bangkok-Siem Reap-Kuala Lumpur-Kuala Trengganu-Kuala Lumpur-Jakarta-Tokyo-Chicago-Charlotte-Fort Lauderdale Trip 2
Jun 15, 2014
WANDERING JEW: THE SHABBATH VARIATIONS
I have been fortunate enough to be traveling on an irregularly irregular basis all around the world since 1993, and since 2002 fairly regularly to South East Asia. I have…
Apr 15, 2014
IRAN IN MALACCA. JADE in Malaysia tinged with Nostalgia
Almost two years to this day. I had arrived at KLIA after a memorable journey, which made this arrival even more memorable. Omaha-Denver-Los Angeles-Honolulu-Guam-Hong Kong with a long layover-Kuala Lumpur,…
Mar 15, 2014
NAT IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT RANGOON, BURMA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF AN ENCOUNTER AT THE SYNGAGOUE IN RANGOON! Burma, or its modern name, Myanmar, had offered welcome to Iraqi…
Feb 15, 2014
MACHINES WITHOUT DOCTORS: USELESS MEDICAL CARE IN INDONESIA AND EMERGING ECONOMIES OF ASIA
MACHINES WITHOUT DOCTORS DON'T PROVIDE GOOD HEALTH CARE COST OF USELESS MEDICAL CARE IN THE EMERGING NATIONS: THE CASE OF INDONESIA This was the story told to me by a…
Feb 15, 2014
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS !
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS I have been lucky to have been able to combine my profession (Medicine) , my passion (Anthropology) and Travel, almost always combining the three.…
Jan 15, 2014
2013 A GOOD YEAR FOR TRAVEL
2013 has been a good year for travel..the usual culprits UK, which to me still remains London France, which this year were visits to Quiberon, Bretagne Belgium, where it was…