Feb 15, 2012
The Cuban Love of Paris
OTHER CUBANS IN PARIS, THE OTHER UNENDING FIESTA I know P who is Cuban, who after the many years still has not lost his habanero accent, but he adores the…
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.
Feb 15, 2012
Photos from La Habana, Cuba
Hope my friends can see these photographs taken recently in Nuestra Ciudad San Cristobal de la HABANA, Cuba..
Jan 15, 2012
Shopping for Cuban Friends and Family in Bangalore
My friends in Bangalore always joke that I am buying things that is not in great demand locally. But little do they know where these gifts are destined to: The…
Dec 15, 2011
UmonHon to Bretons via Los Cubanos
It has been an unusually mild winter week in the North Eastern Corner of Nebraska. I left at 11 am from the Blue House, while the skies were cloudless and…
Dec 15, 2011
Dont Blame Fidel Castro for Heart Disease in Cuba!
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE How wrong are the Epidemiologists? Troubadours of Tragedy or what Fidel and Breast Cancer have in common? We are constantly bombarded with…
Nov 15, 2011
PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING IN HAVANA, CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Fieldwork in Immersion Philosophical Counselling The reality of Cuba is to be experienced and understood and not enjoyed only from the comforts…
Nov 15, 2011
The Delights of Being in CUBA…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It is 1 AM in the morning and we have just finished our conversations, covering a myriad of subjects and the entire…
Nov 15, 2011
INTENSE DAYS IN LA HABANA,CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE INTENSE DAYS IN LA HABANA How does a society affect the character of individuals in that society, such that he or she…
Mar 15, 2011
Cuban Doctors, Cholera in Haiti and their valiant Assistance
I am so proud of what the Cuban doctors are doing, to help the sister nation of Haiti . This is the little known aspect of Cuba's aid to 69…
Jan 15, 2011
CUBAN TENDERNESS
Cuban Tenderness Cuando me cuentas de tus dias siento nostalgia de que habitemos lugares tan distantes, no poder tenerte mas cerca, para poder pasar mas tiempo juntos, visitarte y que…
Dec 15, 2010
CUBA AND THE INDIANS may 3, 1903
In a New York Times Article published on May 3, 1903, the headlines read: No representative of the Race that greeted Columbus could be found in Cuba. Just think, how…
Nov 15, 2010
Malaysia in Cuba.. Malaysians need to polish their Image abroad
Malaysia in Cuba I have had no desire to get in touch with Malaysian Embassy in the past but with my increasing connection to Malaysia, on a whim, I decided…
Nov 15, 2010
La Habana, Cuba.. The Moveable Feast
WHAT 3 EUROS WOULD BUY YOU AT THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKET IN CUBA 09 NOVEMBER 2010 Three large avacados, two Kg of Bananas, two kilograms of Guava, half a…
Nov 15, 2010
Yoga in Cuba
Meeting with a Remakable Yogi in Havana, Cuba A line from Pablo Neruda’s poem always sticks in my mind when I am in La Habana, Cuba. In it the poet…
Nov 15, 2010
Bienvenidos a Cuba Welcome to Cuba…La Calor Humana
Bienvenidos a Cuba Cuban Hospitality and Cuban sense of Social Responsibility Exactly one month ago, the curator of the National Museum was in Paris and I was proud to show…
Nov 15, 2010
La Habana, Cuba… Coincidences are not Casual
Casualidad es no tan Casual It is just you are not intelligent enough to understand it, said my Meskwaki teacher.. We tend to believe that things happen in a random…
Nov 15, 2010
Welcome Abstinence from Internet ….CUBA mi isla Rica
I am going into Exile, to use the abused word in MIami among Cuban Immigrants, most of whom since about 1962 have been economic migrants, from Internet. An extremely welcome…
Oct 15, 2010
I am Proud of Cuba and Cuban Doctors
Only yesterday I became aware of the fact that there are students from Solomon Island studying Medicine in Cuba. Just looking at the following citation from 2008, I was so…