Feb 15, 2024
THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
I like my language very much and fascinated by the etymology of the myriad of words that has entered the English language through conquest of and conquest by the British…
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, 2024
CHOOSE YOUR CAREER CAREFULLY
CHOOSE YOUR CAREER CAREFULLY ASK YOURSELF, DOES THIS FIT MY PERSONALITY ? ONLY YOU CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION AS YOU ALONE KNOW BEST WHO YOU ARE There was no question…
Jan 15, 2024
I AM AN AUSTRALIAN JEW AND I LOVE MOROCCO
I AM AN AUSTRALIAN JEW AND I LOVE MOROCCO Jews have been present in Morocco for at least 2000 years and lived with the native Amazigh (Berber) people . There…
Jan 15, 2024
WELCOME 2024 FULL OF HOPE AND TRANQUILITY AND IT IS THE YEAR FOR ME FRIEND AND FOOD AND SOUL
With Gratitude we goodbye to 2023 and with Gratitude we welcome 2024. It is good to reflect on happiness in this moment of great transition from one year to the…
Dec 15, 2023
31 DECEMBER THE MOST LIMINAL OF THE DAYS OF 2023. WELCOME 2024
I have never been too fond of the transition from 31 December to 1 January. It is not looked forward to, nor have I any great memories of those days…
Sep 15, 2023
I AM IN THE MOOD FOR YOM KIPPUR TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
HAPPY SPRING IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE FIRST DAY OF THE MONTH OF MEHR IN IRAN AND ALSO The Mehregan Festival, or the Persian Festival of Autumn, is an ancient celebration…
Jul 15, 2023
1776 AND ALL THAT. ARRIVAL OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ON THE FRENCH COAST
Port San Gustain is a port in Brittany with an illustrious past. The current day village is a charming one on one of the estuaries in the Bay in Brittany…
Jul 15, 2023
SOME INTERESTING FACTS. JEBEL TARIK. ESTEBANICO ZANJ IL BAR SIDDI AFRO IRANIANS
SOME INTERESTING FACTS. HISTORY AND TRAVEL GIBRALTAR the part of United Kingdom at the African tip of the Iberian Peninsula, is named after the Amazigh General(native people of North Africa…
Jun 15, 2023
GRACIAS MERIDA FOR ALL YOUR GIFTS INCLUDING THE ONE FROM THE CITY ON RIO DE LA PLATA
It is 2 am in Miami and the house is pleasantly quiet, there is no one here. I have been away from Miami for two weeks on a trip which…
Jun 15, 2023
AMERINDIO. THE CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF INDIGENOUS MEXICANS TO MEXICAN CULTURE
When you are in Mexico, it does not take very long to realise the contribution of the indigenous people to the culture of Mexico. Unlike the predominantly protestant immigrant country…
Jun 15, 2023
COINCIDENCES ARE NOT COINCIDENCES .. WE ARE NOT SMART ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THEM
A voyage of too many coincidences Coincidences do not exist, it shows our inability to understand it A short visit to Buenos Aires Miami to Panama to Montevideo, the awful…
Jun 15, 2023
COMPASSIONATE MEDICAL CARE IN MONTERREY, MEXICO!
I am writing this from Monterrey, Mexico. Most people who do not know Mexico well would be surprised how Europeanised and well organised and clean the city is; With this…
May 15, 2023
HEROES OF QUILMES, DOCTORS AND NURSES AT THE HOSPITAL AT DR OLLER FRANCISCO SOLANO IN THE PROVINCE OF BUENOS AIRES IN ARGENTINA
I had come to Buenos Aires to visit a good friend of mine, whom I had known in La Habana, Cuba. He works as a front line doctor in the…
May 15, 2023
FROM THE CHAOS OF BUENOS AIRES TO THE CALM OF MONTEVIDEO, JUST ACROSS THE RIVER, THIS IS ANOTHER WORLD
I had gone down to Buenos Aires that magical city which capture my dreams after my visit there and then the subsequent visits. The pandemic put an end to regular…
May 15, 2023
IF YOU WISH TO DIE EARLIER, MIGRATE TO THE USA, I TOLD A GROUP OF FOREIGN ENDOCRINOLOGISTS AT A MEETING
I am fortunate to visit USA to be with the indigenous people of that country and on arrival at JFK or Miami, the first thing that hits you, is the…
Apr 15, 2023
MERIDA MEXICO IS A DREAM I FELT SO ALIVE THERE .. AND THANKFUL FOR FRIENDS ON THIS JOURNEY
Many years ago, during a Psychiatry rotation (the only specialty where the Nurses Assistant knows as much as the Doctor, was my conclusion, even though I would have made a…
Apr 15, 2023
THE CITY OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS COCHIN IN KERALA
The Anthropologists of Cochin when was the last time you visited a town and ran ino a gaggle of anthropologists?? i am talking about the educated class of Cochin in…
Apr 15, 2023
WHERE IS MUZIRIS in books and at the archeological site
The only Biennale in all of India is held in Cochin and is currently on. I recently made a visit to Fort Cochin to check out certain friendships and visiting…