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…
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.
Jan 15, 2012
Where am I ? not an existentialist question but a Geo Quiz
If it is Monday, It must be…. Where am I going, this day on a flight leaving BLR at 15.55? I will begin with a ditty Sultan of Ternate has…
Jan 15, 2012
TWO DAYS TO GET TO INDIA, THREE DAYS LATER I AM OFF AGAIN
Leaving the Blue House on the Indian Reservation to Omaha Airport then a short flight to Chicago and the United First Lounge United Chicago to Frankfurt. Lufthansa Senator Lounge at…
Jan 15, 2012
SHALOM FROM A JEW IN THE SULTANATE OF OMAN
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A JEW IN OMAN There is a sensation of welcome when you arrive at SEEB international Airport at Muscat, the capital city…
Jan 15, 2012
Zheng He and Salalah, Dhofar, Oman
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Whenever you are near the Ocean in many of the Asian Countries, if you are a History enthusiast, the name of that…
Jan 15, 2012
I will be back in Oman and Salalah.. for sure
It is not often that one writes a blog about a Hotel but Salalah Hilton is not just any hotel, it distinguishes itself by its unique service, which reflects in…
Jan 15, 2012
Who can you Trust for Your News? Use a Little Analaysis and Avoid Professor Peons
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Who can you trust regarding News and Information and thus Knowledge? We are overwhelmed with increased number of resources to get…
Jan 15, 2012
The Drinking Disorder of the Americans of the USA
The Drinking Problems of the Americans of the USA Two normal size cans of Soft Drink, fizzy, full of chemicals, is the average intake of Yanks! Per Day! I don't…
Dec 15, 2011
RAJA YOGA IN KUALA LUMPUR MEHERYOGAMALAYSIA@GMAIL.COM
RAJA YOGA IN KUALA LUMPUR MeherYoga In just less than one year, the knowledge garnered and disseminated among friends by my best friend in KL, MunChing Yong has been phenomenal.…
Dec 15, 2011
The Modern Myth of Cholesterol..Do we need Sherlock Holmes?
THE STORY OF CHOLESTEROL, WE DO NEED A SHERLOCK HOLMES HERE… While writing this, I was reminded so much of one of my good teachers in Endocrinology, Dr Eric Reiss,…
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…
Dec 15, 2011
Warm Welcome to San Augustin de Laredo, Fundado en 1755
Bienvenidos a San Augustin de Laredo, fundado 1755 on the banks of Rio Grande. (Rio Bravo). Currently part of the State of Texas and thus United States of America Laredo…
Dec 15, 2011
The Parallel Spiritual World: Lessons from the Kickapoo
The Parallel Spiritual World of the Kickapoo When people say, " I am a spiritual person", the meaning of that pronouncement is lost on me. It is others who judge…
Dec 15, 2011
Shabbat Shalom and Happy Hanukkah: It is time to go HOME
On this Friday Night, I am in an Indian Reservation and having visited two tribes on this visit to North America, it is time to go HOME.. But the Lakotas…
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
Touching to learn about Mr Sardari Iranian Diplomat in wartime France
This Iranian Diplomat saved the lives of thousands of Jews by confusing the Nazis by convincing them that Iranian Jews are of Aryan Origin and made them declare Iranian Jews…
Dec 15, 2011
THE TRIBE OF MALABARS
The Tribe of Malabars During a recent conversation in Paris, I was told by a Reunionese that she belonged to a Tribe of Malabars from the Island of Reunion. My…
Dec 15, 2011
2012 THE YEAR OF LIVING JOYOUSLY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE 2012 The Year of Living Joyously Each year brings its special brand of happiness. 2012 would be no different and something entirely…