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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
I have always been interested in isolated jewish communities or "exotic" jewish communities, the Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan and Cochin Jews of Kerala are the best known among them. But…
By an immense stroke of luck, I was able to spend an extended period of time in Southern Sweden. I had left Australia where I felt so secure about our…
We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies…
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 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…
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…
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…
For young translator of sold-out ‘Harry Potter,’ Yiddish is truly his mamaloshen How Arun Viswanath, the 29-year-old scion of a US literary dynasty, translated series opener ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ into…
Magic days amidst rain and thunder in Miami They had announced it earlier, a storm is forming out on the horizon and one could feel more than normal rain and…
I have been lucky to include India in my wanderings around the world, despite the fact that my visits are always short lived, a matter of days and it is…
A lovely spring day in Miami. The leaves are growing in front of your eyes. Tall trees shadier by the day. On such a day I finished reading Murakami, Haruki's…
It was a nice day in August 2012, when I left the reservation of the UmonHon Indians in the USA and flew from Houston to Doha, connecting to Jakarta. It…
It is a wonderfully beautiful full moon night in Miami. Why is this night different from all the other nights? I will tell you I was told to go out…
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION ? NO ANXIETY NO FEAR BUT SHEER JOY OF FRIENDS FROM NEAR AND FAR. 30 APRIL 2020 IN MIAMI WHICH IS UNDER LOCKDOWN The…
There is no visible symbol in the west that has been associated with another entire hemisphere such as the MASK. People stared at Japanese tourists politely had their masks on…
Sixty days ago, I arrived in Miami on a flight, and took Share Ride Uber to my sisters house and I have not been back to the airport since. I…
Many years ago, I encountered a little poet at Cote Sauvage in the Bretagne peninsula that houses the vacation spot of Quiberon. I have been lucky in that over the…
I am a traveller, so it is only natural that I hear various languages in my travels, some common, some uncommon and some rare. The most common languages for me…
